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horizon::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | celestial horizon |
| Type of | great circle |
horizon::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | apparent horizon, sensible horizon, skyline, visible horizon |
| Type of | line |
horizon::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | stratum |
| Has types | soil horizon, geological horizon |
Examples of horizon
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Horizon Airlines is part of a strategic realignment going on at Alaska Airlines.
From the ocregister.com
Helicopters buzzed overhead, surveying the destruction that spanned the horizon.
From the courier-journal.com
It shimmers like a brown-red moon poking over the horizon on a hot summer night.
From the courier-journal.com
Otherwise, it may not amount to much more than a spot on the technology horizon.
From the businessweek.com
The bollworm is one of a swarm of genetically engineered insects on the horizon.
From the businessweek.com
Gathering the whole team for some sort of workouts is definitely on the horizon.
From the online.wsj.com
Dissent of any kind, let alone revolutionary change, was nowhere on the horizon.
From the newscientist.com
In 2008, Leonhardt and his team showed how to mimic an event horizon in the lab.
From the newscientist.com
I thought the final scene was of the apes in the trees looking over the horizon.
From the guardian.co.uk
- The line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
- The range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge"
- A specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land
- The great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth
- The top layer of a soil profile; usually contains humus
- The horizon is the apparent line that separates earth from sky, the line that divides all visible directions into two categories: those that intersect the Earth's surface, and those that do not. At many locations, the true horizon is obscured by trees, buildings, mountains, etc. ...
- Horizon is a fantasy novel by Lois McMaster Bujold. It is the fourth in the tetralogy The Sharing Knife.
- An archaeological horizon is a widely disseminated period of common art and artifacts at an archaeological site or, more usually, over a larger geographic area, and is a distinctive level in that site's or area's archaeological sequence.
- Horizon is a current and long-running BBC popular science and philosophy documentary programme.
