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  1. Is there one word for both horizontal or vertical, but not diagonal ...

    Apr 19, 2014 · Is there one word for both horizontal or vertical, but not diagonal, adjacency? Ask Question Asked 11 years, 7 months ago Modified 1 year, 7 months ago

  2. Word for "having horizontal and vertical directions" that a ...

    Jan 1, 2016 · As the title says, I'm looking for a word that means "having horizontal and vertical directions." The catch is that I'm a mathematician trying to describe notions similar to "horizontality" …

  3. elevation vs altitude - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Altitude: vertical distance between an object and the local surface of the Earth. Elevation: vertical distance between the local surface of the Earth and global sea level.

  4. Verb for increasing the vertical dimension of a space?

    Is there a single verb that means to increase the vertical dimension of something? (For purposes of this question it does not matter whether they're doing that by modifying the floor or the ceiling.) Raise is …

  5. single word requests - X, Y, Z — horizontal, vertical and ...

    Jan 31, 2012 · 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 …

  6. expressions - Is x plotted against y or is y plotted against x ...

    The convention is that x would occupy the horizontal axis, while y occupies the vertical axis, regardless if x is plotted against y, or y against x. Visually, which often would appear mutually indiscriminatable for …

  7. 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...

  8. What is a word to accompany horizontal and vertical?

    If 'horizontal' follows the horizon, and 'vertical' ascends from the horizon, is there a word for a line from the viewer to the horizon? Otherwise, is there a broadly accepted business term for describing data …

  9. phrases - What is the vertical complement of side-by-side? - English ...

    Dec 25, 2017 · I searched on google and came up with over-under in an article about shotgun barrels comparison. Also, over-under image search yields mostly shotgun images. Is this the vertical …

  10. meaning - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Apr 13, 2016 · 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 …