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horizontally en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English horizontal Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English horizontally From horizontal + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a horizontal direction or position.
   • Japanese can be written horizontally as well as vertically.
   • Moreover, recent research showed that the amount of genetic material that can be moved horizontally may include small gene fragments, entire operons, superoperons that encode complex biochemical pathways, and whole chromosomes [ 54 ]. 2015 July 4, Jiangtao Guo et al., “Horizontal gene transfer in an acid mine drainage microbial community”, in BMC Genomics, volume 16, →DOI:
2. In a horizontal manner (any sense).
   • an organism transmitted horizontally

Forms

Coordinates

vertically

Deriveds

subhorizontally · horizontally integrated · horizontally challenged

Translations (20)

sv horisontellt (in a horizontal direction or position) · ru горизонта́льно (in a horizontal direction or position) · ca horitzontalment (in a horizontal direction or position) · cs vodorovně (in a horizontal direction or position) · fi vaakasuoraan (in a horizontal direction or position) · az üfüqi (in a horizontal direction or position) · fr horizontalement (in a horizontal direction or position) · es horizontalmente (in a horizontal direction or position) · ka ჰორიზონტალურად (in a horizontal direction or position) · ro orizontal (in a horizontal direction or position) · ko 가로 (in a horizontal direction or position) · it orizzontalmente (in a horizontal direction or position) · de waagerecht (in a horizontal direction or position) · pt horizontalmente (in a horizontal direction or position) · el οριζόντια (in a horizontal direction or position) · pl poziomo (in a horizontal direction or position) · nl horizontaal (in a horizontal direction or position) · de horizontal (in a horizontal direction or position) · gl horizontalmente (in a horizontal direction or position) · sv vågrätt (in a horizontal direction or position)