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the quality of being parallel to the horizon
houses with a pronounced horizontality
How To Use horizontality In A Sentence
- From the valley floor the line “could be traced along the mountain sides, following all the angles and sinuosities of the ridges for many miles—always preserving its horizontality—sometimes being high up above the plain, and again intersecting long and high slopes of gravel and sand; on such places a beach-line could be read.” Colossus
- The experiment results indicate that the antrorse liquid surface keeps to horizontality and advances along the vertical direction.
- houses with a pronounced horizontality
- It's ground-hugging horizontality reaching for the horizon; the entrance that 'winds in' to the centre of the house; the low sheltering roofs springing from the central vertical core; the 'pinwheel' spaces revolving out around the hearth ... this was a revolutionary new form of space and domestic architecture not seen before, patterns that would be seen in most of his 'Prairie Houses' for the next ten years. Not PC
- Meanwhile, these instruments create a virtual line across the front of the car, right at the level of the four-ring logo and, combined with the strakes of brightwork in the grille and brake ducts, the effect is to broaden, to exaggerate the horizontality of the car. The Better to Eat You With, Luxury Rivals
- The horizontality of her fallen body is juxtaposed to the vertical thrust of the apartment building.
- Externally, the building's horizontality is emphasized and given texture by a covering of narrow larch slats and by louvres over glass doors on the west.
- A channel glass wall balances the strong horizontality of the kitchen and provides partial screening of the cooking zone from the more formal rooms in the house.
- Externally, the building's horizontality is emphasized and given texture by a covering of narrow larch slats and by louvres over glass doors on the west.