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Definition of Flatwise
1. a. or adv. With the flat side downward, or next to another object; not edgewise.
Definition of Flatwise
1. Adverb. With a flat side down or otherwise in contact with a flat surface. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flatwise
1. with the flat side in a particular position [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatwise
Literary usage of Flatwise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"It struck the earth flatwise. The smaller one fell about perpendicularly.
The larger fell (coming from the North a little to the West,) making an angle, ..."
2. Fundamental Ideas of Mechanics and Experimental Data by Morin (Arthur Jules), Arthur Jules Morin (1860)
"Experiments upon the friction of strong leather, tanned, and placed flatwise,
upon cast-iron. 0.4155 0.4155 291.01 291.01 291.01 1115.08 ..."
3. Handbook of Cost Data for Contractors and Engineers: A Reference Book Giving by Halbert Powers Gillette (1910)
"believe that in residence streets the bricks should usually be laid flatwise for
true economy's sake. No. of Brick Per Square Yard. Size of Brick. ..."
4. A Treatise on Masonry Construction by Ira Osborn Baker (1914)
"(3) Sometimes brick are tested on end, sometimes on edge, and sometimes flatwise,
the last being the more common practice with the testing machine at the US ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the District Courts of the United by United States District Court (New York), Robert Dewey Benedict, United States District Court (Vermont) (1872)
"It turned out, as before stated, that four sheets were broken in the cases placed
on edge, and six sheets broken in the cases piled flatwise. ..."
6. Experimental Mechanics: A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal College by Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1871)
"The first breaks with 77 Ibs., and the second with 38 Ibs. ; hence the same bar
is twice as strong placed edgewise as flatwise when one dimension of the ..."
7. A Text-book of Physics, Largely Experimental: On the Harvard College by Edwin Herbert Hall, Joseph Young Bergen (1891)
"ness; then torn one of the lamps about in place until its flame is flatwise to
the rod, and compare the shadows again, fixing the attention upon the middle ..."
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