horizontally
advEtymology From horizontal + -ly.
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In a horizontal direction or position.
- Japanese can be written horizontally as well as vertically.
- 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 ].2015 July 4, Jiangtao Guo et al., “Horizontal gene transfer in an acid mine drainage microbial community”, in BMC Genomics, volume 16, →DOI:
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In a horizontal manner (any sense).
- an organism transmitted horizontally
- Derived terms
- horizontally challenged, horizontally integrated, subhorizontally