horizontality
Americannoun
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the condition or fact of being horizontal.
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Business. the defining feature of a corporate structure with minimal hierarchy, in which responsibility for planning and decision-making is spread across all areas or departments of the business.
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Commerce. the fact of encompassing a wide range of industries or many aspects of an industry.
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While sharing similar tenets like low-slung horizontality, natural materials and warm informality, some incorporate elements of Colonial or Spanish architecture, others take on a bit of Swiss Chalet.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025
A local cliche might sum it up: The horizontality of the monument is like a film.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2022
The principle of original horizontality states that sediments accumulate in essentially horizontal layers.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
By civic custom, the buildings that rim the lake or reach into it, from the mighty temple of the Field Museum to the low-slung Navy Pier, hew to its overriding horizontality.
From Chicago Tribune • Nov. 6, 2014
In Chaldæa, on the other hand, the proximity of the two rivers to each other, and the perfect horizontality of the soil, make the work of irrigation very easy.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir
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