horizontally

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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.

Adverb

horizontally (comparative more horizontally, superlative most horizontally)

1. In a horizontal direction or position.

   Coordinate term: vertically

   Japanese can be written horizontally as well as vertically.

   • 2015 July 4, Jiangtao Guo et al., “Horizontal gene transfer in an acid mine drainage microbial community”, in BMC Genomics‎^[1], volume 16, →DOI:

     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 ].

2. In a horizontal manner (any sense).

   an organism transmitted horizontally

Derived terms

• horizontally challenged
• horizontally integrated
• subhorizontally

Translations

in a horizontal direction or position

• Catalan: horitzontalment (ca)
• Czech: vodorovně (cs)
• Dutch: horizontaal (nl)
• Finnish: vaakasuoraan
• French: horizontalement (fr)
• Galician: horizontalmente (gl)
• Georgian: ჰორიზონტალურად (horizonṭalurad)
• German: horizontal (de), waagerecht (de)
• Greek: οριζόντια (el) (orizóntia)
• Italian: orizzontalmente (it)
• Korean: 가로 (ko) (garo)
• Polish: poziomo (pl)
• Portuguese: horizontalmente (pt)
• Romanian: orizontal (ro)
• Russian: горизонта́льно (ru) (gorizontálʹno)
• Spanish: horizontalmente (es)
• Swedish: vågrätt (sv), horisontellt (sv)