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Carefully tighten the clamp until it firmly supports the pipette in a vertical position.
In tin mining today, workers excavate tunnels horizontally from a vertical shaft.
Rotate it slowly from the horizontal into a vertical position.
Plot distance on the vertical Y-axis against time on the horizontal X-axis.
This vertical section of the soil shows four basic soil layers.
Allowing for parallax, the weaving pattern above needs wider gaps either side of the verticals.
In fact, the place of the edges in the picture imposes the verticals they are associated to.
An erudite interplay of verticals and horizontals creates a fairly remarkable harmony.
Longer verticals may have served for higher platforms, for multi-storied structures, or for carrying a rail above platform level.
Much play is made of common tones between the layers to control resultant verticals between them; scrupulous care is thereby taken to ensure that they relate satisfactorily to each other.
In the later work the curving rhythms have given way to a system of verticals and horizontals, broken only by the forty-five degree diagonals of roof-tops and trees.
Owing to their long-term, stable transmission from generation to generation (vertical transmission), these cytoplasmic genomes have been viewed as analogs to organelles.
The height of each bar is read from the vertical axis.
In limestone these lines are usually vertical, and can be used to define the side boundaries of the potential block.
A vertical cylinder was obtained by cutting a circular channel around the block after the top was leveled.
Then a horizontal top plane and some form of vertical plane or step are cut.
They are quite deep, with vertical faces as high as thirty meters.
As for vertical measurements, presumably the stage platform and the first platform levels of the tiring houses were at the same height.
Vertical joints above and below a rail do not align.
A table may be formed comparing vertical and horizontal dimensions as ratios.
