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HORIZONTAL PLANE

Volume 8 · 64 words · 1797 Edition

perspective, is a plane parallel to the horizon, passing through the eye, and cutting the perspective plane at right angles.

HORIZONTAL Projection. See Geography, no 66, 69.

HORIZONTAL Range, or Level Range, of a piece of ordnance, is the line it describes, when directed parallel to the horizon or horizontal line. See Gunnery, paffim.

HORIZONTAL Moon. See Astronomy, no 374.

HORIZONTAL Speculum. See Speculum.