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  2. Page orientation - Wikipedia

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    A smartphone positioned upright (portrait orientation) and horizontally (landscape orientation) Page orientation is the way in which a rectangular page is oriented for normal viewing. The two most common types of orientation are portrait and landscape. [1] The term "portrait orientation" comes from visual art terminology and describes the ...

  3. Vertical and horizontal - Wikipedia

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    Through any point P in the plane, there is one and only one vertical line within the plane and one and only one horizontal line within the plane. This symmetry breaks down as one moves to the three-dimensional case. A vertical line is any line parallel to the vertical direction. A horizontal line is any line normal to a vertical line.

  4. Rook (chess) - Wikipedia

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    White rook. Black rook. The rook (/ rʊk /; ♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess. It may move any number of squares horizontally or vertically without jumping, and it may capture an enemy piece on its path; it may participate in castling. Each player starts the game with two rooks, one in each corner on their side of the board.

  5. Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts - Wikipedia

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    Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically. Chinese characters, Korean hangul, and Japanese kana may be oriented along either axis, as they consist mainly of disconnected logographic or syllabic units, each occupying a square block of space, thus allowing for flexibility for which direction texts can be written, be it horizontally from left-to-right, horizontally from ...

  6. Field of view - Wikipedia

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    FOV both eyes Vertical FOV Angle of view can be measured horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. A 360-degree panorama of the Milky Way at the Very Large Telescope.In the image, the Milky Way appears like an arc of stars spanning horizon to horizon with two streams of stars seemingly cascading down like waterfalls.

  7. Horizon - Wikipedia

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    View of the ocean with two ships: one in the foreground and one to the left of it on the horizon. Historically, the distance to the visible horizon has long been vital to survival and successful navigation, especially at sea, because it determined an observer's maximum range of vision and thus of communication, with all the obvious consequences for safety and the transmission of information ...

  8. Knight (chess) - Wikipedia

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    The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck. It moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one square vertically, jumping over other pieces. Each player starts the game with two knights on the b- and g- files, each located between a rook and a bishop.

  9. Typographic alignment - Wikipedia

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    Typographic alignment. In typesetting and page layout, alignment or range is the setting of text flow or image placement relative to a page, column (measure), table cell, or tab (and often to an image above it or under it). The type alignment setting is sometimes referred to as text alignment, text justification, or type justification.