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Purlin

In root construction a horizontal member supported on the principals and supporting the common rafters

Roller coaster

on a track and such cars may be made to swing outward at an angle near to the horizontal It is a popular amusement at many amusement parks but is sufficiently frightening to some people that they

Sag

To sink in the middle by its weight or under applied pressure below a horizontal line or plane as a line or cable supported by its ends sags though tightly drawn the floor

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Sill

The basis or foundation of a thing especially a horizontal piece as a timber which forms the lower member of a frame or supports a structure as the

Slope

An oblique direction a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction also sometimes an inclination as of one line or surface to another

Aerodrome reference point

Aerodrome reference point, in relation to any aerodrome, means a designated point established in the horizontal plane at or near the geometric centre of that part of the aerodrome reserved for the departure or

Area

Act, 1930, s. 5, contains this definition: 'area' in relation to a building means the superficies of a horizontal section thereof made at the point of its greatest surface inclusive of the external walls and of such

Caste

(1976) 3 SCR 82: AIR 1976 SC 939 (948). [Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950] A caste is a horizontal segmental division of society spread over a district or a region or the whole State and also sometimes

Distance

any statute passed after 1st January, 1890, distance is to be measured in a straight line on a horizontal plane (English) Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 34.

Land

minerals, whether or not held apart from the surface, buildings or parts of buildings (whether the division is horizontal, vertical or made in any other way), and other corporeal hereditaments; also a manor, an advowson, and a

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