"horizontal" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The horizontal run has no pitch.
- The PVC pipe goes vertically up from the pump for about four feet and then there is a horizontal run of 14 feet.
- Waste pipes should be well supported - every 500mm for horizontal runs of 32mm pipe and every 1.2m for vertical ones.
- Other considerations may be added to overall head pressure, including loss from elbows/bends and friction loss from long horizontal runs.
- The most coveted houses are those with 7/12 pitch roofs, roofs that rise 7 inches for every 12 feet of horizontal run.
- He pointed out, however, that connecting the horizontal runs of the gutter invited the potential for leaks at the seams.
- On large or uneven surfaces, the flashing is best let into a horizontal run of pointing and sealed in with mortar.
- (This is the angle α opposite the "rise" side of a triangle with a right angle between vertical rise and horizontal run.)
- Slope may still be expressed when the horizontal run is not known: the rise can be divided by the hypotenuse (the slope length).
- But in practice the usual way to calculate slope is to measure the distance along the slope and the vertical rise, and calculate the horizontal run from that.
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