- single word requests - X, Y, Z — horizontal, vertical and . . .
vertical Y-axis (ordinate) for designating top, up or upper and bottom, down or lower positions constituting altitudes like (positive) heights and elevations or (negative) depths becomes usually either the plan , ground , base or floor , i e what appears flat in top -view,
- meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The intersection of the vertical plane with the horizontal plane would form a transverse This medical definition from thefreedictionary com describes: transverse plane of space, n an imaginary plane that cuts the body in two, separating the superior half from the inferior half, and that lies at a right angle from the body's vertical axis
- prepositions - “Next to” is to horizontal as what is to vertical . . .
However, for the vertical next to, it appears one needs to specify whether it is “above” or “below” I find quite interesting why this would be the case (cf various other vertical versus horizontal biases: reading direction, attentional acuity, etc), but I also find it quite annoying
- expressions - Is x plotted against y or is y plotted against x . . .
"Vertical against horizontal", and, if you choose the almost (but not quite) universal convention of having x-values along the horizontal axis, and the variables are x and y, 'y against x' There is the complication that the horizontal axis is usually called the 'x-axis'; this doesn't matter when you're plotting v against t (or t against v
- A word to describe vertical and horizontal movement?
I down-voted this Orthogonal does not imply horizontal and vertical movement Orthogonal implies that one movement is at a right angle with respect to the other Horizontal and diagonal movements are thus always orthogonal, but two diagonal movements can also be orthogonal to each other
- Is there a hypernym for horizontal and vertical?
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
- Technical Names for Body Halves – Upper and Lower
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- Is there a word for a road or river that runs almost vertical in the map?
defined as moving toward polar regions by both Oxford and Merriam Webster, which basically applies to anything that appears “vertical” on the map I don't really see a metaphor (in case that's the reason for the downvote); merely a widened usage of the concept actually connoted
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