Sentence examples for close to horizontal from inspiring English sources

Pitch of the fish was close to horizontal when swimming horizontally, head-up (maximum, 65°) when ascending, and head-down (minimum, −55°) when descending.

Tie them as close to horizontal as possible to encourage maximum bloom by slowing down sap, which results in more flower buds.

Fish orientation was close to horizontal for pollock, but slightly downward for hake (15.56°), which could have implications for acoustics-based biomass estimates.

The model show that the block-and-ash flow can deposit either long, close to horizontal single layers, or shorter layers that imbricate themselves, following different patterns (progradation, retrogradation or aggradation).

The geometry of a thrust fault consists of a flat, which is close to horizontal, a ramp that dips at angles between about 20 and 45 degrees, and an upper flat at the top of the ramp.

The plunge of the minimum compressive stress axis being close to horizontal (15°) points out a trans-tensional stress regime.

The chart looked much different for example in last summer's vote to end NSA phone metadata collection, Harry points out, because some of those 'D's on the left were blue, pulling the line closer to horizontal.

The stress tensor inversion results yield nearly E W maximum compressive stress axis similar to the orientation of σ 1 derived by Pinar et al. (2010) but closer to horizontal (Fig. 11b).

The inversion results show that the maximum and intermediate principal stress axes are closer to horizontal and that the minimum compressive stress axis is closer to vertical, indicating a transpressive tectonic stress regime (Table 1) in the western part of the Gulf of Izmit, which well fits the structural models (Gökaşan et al., 2001; Cormier et al., 2006).

The wings are modified when gliding so that they rise from the body at an angle, but are closer to horizontal further along the wingspan.

A higher score implied high apical dominance and straight stem with few branches, inserted at high angles (closer to horizontal position) (Galera et al. 1997).