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HORIZONTAL SURFACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horizontal surface mean? 

HORIZONTAL SURFACE (noun)
  The noun HORIZONTAL SURFACE has 1 sense:

1. a flat surface at right angles to a plumb lineplay

  Familiarity information: HORIZONTAL SURFACE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HORIZONTAL SURFACE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A flat surface at right angles to a plumb line

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

horizontal surface; level

Context example:

park the car on the level

Hypernyms ("horizontal surface" is a kind of...):

surface (the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horizontal surface"):

floor; flooring (the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure))

paved surface (a level horizontal surface covered with paving material)

platform (a raised horizontal surface)


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