horizon
nounEtymology
Inherited from Middle English orisonte, orisoun, from Middle French horizon, horizonte, from Old French orisonte, orison, via Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).
Definitions
The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth…
The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
- A tall building was visible on the whole sweep of the horizon.
The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest
The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold.
- Some students take a gap year after finishing high school to broaden their horizons.
- With clinical researchers hard at work, a new treatment is on the horizon.
The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
- Only mortality, this irreducible and primordial horizon, that very horizon which, in Being and Time, Heidegger so compellingly revealed as the unsurpassable and defining possibility, remains.
›+ 4 more definitionsshow fewer
A specific layer of soil, or stratum
A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
Any level line or surface.
The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.
The neighborhood
- neighborhorizontal
- neighboraorist
- neighborvertical
Derived
absolute horizon, A-horizon, antihorizon, apparent horizon, archaeological horizon, archeological horizon, artificial horizon, Cauchy horizon, circumhorizon, comoving horizon, cosmic event horizon, cosmic light horizon, cosmological event horizon, cosmological horizon, dip of the horizon, dynamical horizon, event horizon, Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin horizon, GZK horizon, horizonal, horizon effect, horizon glass, horizonless, horizon problem, horizonward, horizonwards, Hubble horizon, isolated horizon, Killing horizon, marker horizon, moral event horizon, on the horizon, particle horizon, quicksilver horizon, radar horizon, rational horizon, split horizon, subhorizon, superhorizon, time horizon · +1 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at horizon. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at horizon. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at horizon
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA