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I think seeing how much breadth someone's had, and their appetite for not just vertical career ladders, but their appetite for what I call the horizontal experiences, where it wasn't always just about a title or the next layer up.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or near the horizon.
  2. adjective Parallel to or in the plane of the horizon.
  3. adjective At right angles to a vertical line.

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  • A comfortable double decker coach with a single seat which reclined almost to horizontal, a footstool, veggie food, air-con, curtains on the windows, refreshments ... the only thing that hadn´t changed was the dire films on show, but, with ear plugs, this was a minor detail! —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Not a single one was a table designed as such, that is, a horizontal member with four legs. —  Planet Mozilla
  • A bead or butt welding process with its linear direction horizontal or inclined at an angle less than 45 degrees to the horizontal, and the parts welded being vertically or approximately vertically disposed. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • Computing while horizontal is a key use case for laptops and Apple design either failed to test that case, or didn't think it was important enough. —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • If we factor in atmospheric and gravity losses, the first stage has to deliver a total of almost 3.8 km / s and burnout with an angle of roughly 65 degrees (from the horizontal, which is very consistent with the design that finally emerges). —  ArmsControlWonk
 

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  1. French, from Latin horizōn, horizont-, horizon; see horizon.

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  1. = Dutch horizontaal = German horizontal = Danish Swedish horisontal = F. Spanish Portuguese horizontal = Italian orizzontale, from Middle Latin *horizontalis, from Latin horizon, horizon: see horizon.
 

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/hɑrɪˈzɑntəl/
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