- 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
- Is there one word for both horizontal or vertical, but not diagonal . . .
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
- 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 1-1 mapping plots
- 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
- Specific words for cross sections of different orientation
According to Wikipedia's architectural drawing page: A cross section, also simply called a section, represents a vertical plane cut through the object, in the same way as a floor plan is a horizontal section viewed from the top This would suggest that section is only appropriate for vertical planes However, section is more generally defined as, per dictionary com: a representation of an
- What is the structure from which a sign is hung called?
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 crossbeam, I gues
- 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 not correct because raising doesn't change size, only elevation
- A word to describe vertical and horizontal movement?
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 In fact, the two diagonal movements in chess are orthogonal to each other
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