- single word requests - X, Y, Z — horizontal, vertical and . . .
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-dimensional) Which is the reason you may not find a word corresponding to the third dimension along with horizontal and vertical
- single word requests - What is a vertical panorama called? - English . . .
The maximum vertical distance that can be viewed is from the horizon (or objects on the horizon, including distant hills) to the zenith, directly overhead I'm not entirely sure how the word you want would be used Could you edit your question to give a real-world example? –
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Is there one word for both horizontal or vertical, but not diagonal . . .
In this case, I like the term axial to describe a direction that is along the horizontal or vertical axis relative to the current position Axial - situated around, in the direction of, on, or along an axis
- 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
- 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
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