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.
Example Sentences
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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 many people who now work remotely no longer need to worry about the disapproving eyes of their colleagues if they want a brief, discreet period of horizontality in the afternoons.
From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2020
The lower strata were tilted by tectonic processes that disturbed their original horizontality and caused the strata to be eroded.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
II., rather than sacrifice the sacred horizontality of their arch system.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by Ruskin, John
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