What is the word used to describe things ordered by height?
Vertical simply implies a direction, or height. Sometimes it''s used in the context of a hierarchy, but even there it implies "up-down", not stacked. Are you suggesting that a sentence like
Vertical simply implies a direction, or height. Sometimes it''s used in the context of a hierarchy, but even there it implies "up-down", not stacked. Are you suggesting that a sentence like
(possible) interest only: I use || to separate distinct thoughts in a comment field such as this one. || Using a double vertical separator is exceedingly non-standard but I think/hope/feel
If x and y are horizontal, z is vertical; if x and z are horizontal, y is vertical. The words horizontal and vertical are generally used in a planar (2-dimensional) sense, not spatial (3
The terms “Portrait” and “landscape” are used to describe the orientation of content relative to a page or screen. For the sake of keeping file names short and concise, what would be the
My grandparents had a structure at the last cattle guard before their ranch house from which a sign with the name of their ranch hung. It was two vertical poles, with a horizontal
The intersection of the vertical plane with the horizontal plane would form a transverse. This medical definition from thefreedictionary describes: transverse plane of space, n an
How acceptable is to use the word "dorsal" as antonym for "lateral"? Are there better antonyms denoting direction along the vertical as opposed to lateral.
Is there one word for both horizontal or vertical, but not diagonal, adjacency? Ask Question Asked 11 years, 9 months ago Modified 1 year, 9 months ago
I am reading The Cuckoo''s Egg by Cliff Stoll. Page 13 of my copy says: Truly, the super-user is all-powerful: she controls the horizontal, she controls the vertical. I am not familiar with this p...
If I want to speak of North, South, East, West in a general sense I could, for example, use the term cardinal direction. Which term is appropriate to sum up horizontal and vertical in the same man...
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