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1959 Times Rev. Industry Dec. 6/3 The..Fair..was one of the first..trade fairs to verticalize by organising..specialised events during..a year, rather than staging one general fair.

1962 G. Perle Serial Composition & Atonality iii. 42 Verticalization..represents a fundamental concept of atonal composition—that any group of notes which is statable in horizontal succession is also statable as a simultaneity.., a concept sometimes designated by the rather questionable term, ‘vertical melody’.

1964 M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia ix. 59 There is some disorientation of the background, usually by rotation of mobile figures, or by ‘verticalisation’.

1965 Economist 19 June 1439/3 Courtaulds being particularly weak in weaving so that effective verticalisation ends at the yarn stage.

1970 Daily Tel. 10 Jan. 7/7 He does renounce..that festering sore of serialism, the automatic verticalisation of melodies.

1979 Nature 15 Mar. 226/1 The late alkaline rocks in the ring-complexes may be related to verticalisation of the Benioff plane accompanied by a diapiric rise of mantle material.

1984 Christian Sci. Monitor 7 Feb. 39/2 I praised Masotti's movement of his necktie from his stomach to his pocket and its slight verticalization.

1964 M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia ix. 59 There is a tendency for the child to convert figures, especially those that are verticalised and closed, into a man by drawing a face within the enclosure.

1982 Christian Sci. Monitor 21 Sept. b2/2 As a matter of corporate policy, Hewlett-Packard divisions are ‘verticalized’, each one functioning as a small company on its own.

1965 Economist 2 Jan. 54/2 The three or four main ‘verticalising’ companies will have less to feed their appetites and more time to digest what they have.