Unlike waves that break along the shore, Rossby waves are huge, undulating movements of the ocean that stretch horizontally across the planet for hundreds of kilometers in a westward direction.
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Horizontally
Synonyms for "horizontally" (5 found)
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Antonyms
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1 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
1 entriesTranslations
19 translations across 17 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- horitzontalment adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
Czech
1 entries- vodorovně adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
Dutch
1 entries- horizontaal adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
Finnish
1 entries- vaakasuoraan adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
French
1 entries- horizontalement adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
Galician
1 entries- horizontalmente adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
Georgian
1 entries- ჰორიზონტალურად adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
German
2 entries- horizontal adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
- waagerecht adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
Greek
1 entries- οριζόντια adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
Italian
1 entries- orizzontalmente adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
Korean
1 entries- 가로 adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
Polish
1 entries- poziomo adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
Portuguese
1 entries- horizontalmente adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
Romanian
1 entries- orizontal adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
Russian
1 entries- горизонта́льно adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
Spanish
1 entries- horizontalmente adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
Swedish
2 entries- horisontellt adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
- vågrätt adv (in a horizontal direction or position)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
If the moon landing was real, they ask, why didn't the lander scatter dust when it touched down? In reality, the lander was traveling horizontally much of the time and the thrusters that controlled its landing were not pointed down. Radiation from the sun also made the dust highly charged and it clung to the moon’s surface.
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In the window opening he set small branches about an inch in diameter both vertically and horizontally, and so woven that they formed a substantial grating that could withstand the strength of a powerful animal.
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The knight moves in the shape of the letter "L": two squares vertically and one horizontally, or one square vertically and two horizontally.
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