Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In craniometry, the act of placing the skull for craniometrical measurement so that the plane taken as the horizontal datum-plane shall be truly horizontal.
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- noun The act or process of
horizontalizing .
Etymologies
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horizontalize + -ation
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Examples
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This gave translators tremendous leeway and, given the times, led to a marked horizontalization and banalization (if such are words!) of the liturgy.
The Paragraph Farmer 2009
alexz commented on the word horizontalization
seen posted by VMWare on LinkedIn.. and it has nothing to do with Craniometry. I like it when old words get a new meaning.
"VMware
“…But I think there's a sense that there's change in the air. And that change is around horizontalization and that change is around software-consuming functionality. We can call it whatever we want. To me, this is the realization of network virtualization.” -Martin Casado, Chief Architect of...more http://ow.ly/kUL6o"
May 11, 2013