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HORIZONTALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horizontality mean? 

HORIZONTALITY (noun)
  The noun HORIZONTALITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being parallel to the horizonplay

  Familiarity information: HORIZONTALITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HORIZONTALITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being parallel to the horizon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

houses with a pronounced horizontality

Hypernyms ("horizontality" is a kind of...):

position; spatial relation (the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated)

Derivation:

horizontal (parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line)


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