horizontal parallax

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• Parallax

  ·noun The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different...

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• parallax

  An apparent change in the position of an object, arising from a change of the observer's station, an...

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• Horizontal

  ·adj Pertaining to, or near, the horizon. II. Horizontal ·adj Parallel to the horizon; on a level; ...

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• horizontal

  n. a Tasmanian shrub, Anodopetalumbiglandulosum, Cunn., N.O. Saxifrageae. HorizontalScrub, peculiar...

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• horizontal

  A direction parallel to the horizon, or what is commonly termed lying flat. One of the greatest inco...

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• Solar parallax

  ·add. ·- The parallax of the sun, that is, the angle subtended at the sun by the semidiameter of the...

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• annual parallax

  See parallax. ...

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• diurnal parallax

  See parallax. ...

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• Plano-horizontal

  ·adj Having a level horizontal surface or position. ...

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• horizontal fire

  From artillery, is that in which the piece is laid either direct on the object, or with but small el...

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• horizontal plan

  In ship-building, the draught of a proposed ship, showing the whole as if seen from above. ...

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• horizontal ribband lines

  A term given by shipwrights to those lines, or occult ribbands, by which the cant-timbers are laid o...

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