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Definition: Horizon |
HorizonNoun1. The line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet. 2. The range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge". 3. A specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land. 4. The great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "horizon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | That great circle of the celestial sphere midway the zenith and nadir, or a line resembling or approximating such a circle.That line where earth and sky appear to meet, and the projection of this line upon the celestial sphere, is called visible or apparent horizon. A line resembling the visible horizon but above or below it is called a false horizon. That circle of the celestial sphere formed by the intersection of the celestial sphere and a plane perpendicular to the zenith-nadir line is called sensible horizon if the plane is through any point, such as the eye of an observer, geoidal horizon if through any sea-level point, and celestial or rational horizon if through the center of the earth. The geometrical horizon was originally considered identical with the celestial sphere and an infinite number of straight lines tangent to the earth's surface, and radiating from the eye of the observer. If there were no terrestrial refraction, geometrical and visible horizons would coincide. An artificial horizon is a gyroscopic instrument for indicating the attitude of an aircraft with respect to the horizontal. A radio horizon is the line at which direct rays from a transmitting antenna become tangent to the earth's surface. A radar horizon is the radio horizon of a radar antenna. (references) |
Geography | A layer of soil approximately parallel to the land surface and differing from adjacent genetically related layers in physical, chemical, and biological properties or characteristics such as colour, structure, texture, consistency, kinds and numbers of organisms present, degree of acidity or alkalinity. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The line at which the earth or sea and sky appear to meet. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. An interface indicative of a particular position in a stratigraphic sequence. In practice it is commonly a distinctive, very thin bed or marker. See also:marker bed b. One of several lines or planes used as reference for observation and measurement relative to a given location on the Earth's surface and referred generally to a horizontal direction (Huschke, 1959); esp. apparent horizon. The term is also frequently applied to artificial horizon c. One of the layers of the soil profile, distinguished principally by its texture, color, structure, and chemical content, designated as A-horizon; B-horizon; C-horizon d. An identifiable rock stratum regionally known to contain or be associated with rock containing valuable minerals. CF:marker; marker bed. (references) |
Space | The line marking the apparent junction of Earth and sky. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The horizon is the line that separates earth from sky. More precisely, it is the line that divides all of the directions you can possibly look into, into two categories: those which intersect the Earth, and those which do not. At many locations, the horizon is obscured by trees, buildings, mountains, etc. However, if you are on a ship at sea, the horizon is strikingly apparent. When flying an aircraft under Visual Flight Rules, the horizon is even more apparent. A technique called attitude flying is used to control the aircraft, where the pilot uses the relationship between the aircraft's nose and the horizon to control the aircraft. He also retains his spatial orientation by referring to the horizon.
The distance in km of the horizon on earth, in a plain (standing on the ground or on a tower, or from a plane) or on a hill or mountain surrounded by plains is approximately √(13h), where h is the height in meters of the eyes.
Examples:
These figures indicate theoretical visibility (what can be seen depends also on how clear the air is, of course) of objects at ground level. To compute to what distance the tip of a tower, the mast of a ship or a hill is above the horizon, add the horizon distance for that height. For example, standing on the ground with h = 1.70 m, one can see, weather permitting, the tip of a tower of 100 m height at a distance of 41 km.
- standing on the ground with h = 1.70 m, the horizon is at a distance of 4.7 km
- standing on a hill or tower of 100 m height, the horizon is at a distance of 36 km
In astronomy the horizon is the horizontal plane through (the eyes of) the observer. It is the fundamental plane of the horizontal coordinate system, the locus of points which have an altitude of zero degrees. The regular horizon is a little below that.
Acknowledgements
The first version of this article originates from Jason Harris' Astroinfo which comes along with KStars, a Desktop Planetarium for Linux/KDE. See http://edu.kde.org/kstars/index.phtmlHorizon is a long-running BBC popular science documentary program, notable for coining the term supervolcano.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Horizon."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The particle horizon in cosmology is the distance from which particles (of positive mass or of zero mass) can have travelled to the observer in the age of the Universe.It is different from the event horizon.
- The particle horizon is defined as the largest comoving distance from which light can have reached us (the observer) - today.
- The event horizon is defined as the largest comoving distance from which light will ever reach us (the observer) - at any time in the future.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Particle horizon."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
HORIZON | English | Horizontal Action on Optical Networks | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: HorizonSynonyms: apparent horizon (n), celestial horizon (n), purview (n), sensible horizon (n), skyline (n), view (n), visible horizon (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Danger | Cause for alarm; source of danger. rock ahead, breakers ahead; storm brewing; clouds in the horizon, clouds gathering; warning; alarm. |
Destiny | Adjective: impending; Verb: destined; about to be, happen; coming, in store, to come, going to happen, instant, at hand, near; near, close at hand; over hanging, hanging over one's head, imminent; brewing, preparing, forthcoming; int he wind, on the cards, in reserve; that will, is to be; in prospect; (expected); looming in the distance, horizon, future; unborn, in embryo; int he womb of time, futurity; pregnant; (producing). |
Distance | Outpost, outskirt; horizon; aphelion; foreign parts, ultima Thule, ne plus ultra, antipodes; long range, giant's stride. |
Expectation | Expected; Verb: long expected, foreseen; in prospect; Noun: prospective; in one's eye, in one's view, in the horizon, on the horizon, just over the horizon, just around the corner, around the corner; impending; (destiny). |
Contemplation, prospection, lookout; prospect, perspective, horizon, vista; destiny. | |
Hopelessness | Airy hopes forlorn hope; gone case, dead duck, gone coon; goner; bad job, bad business; enfant perdu; gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon; slough of Despond, cave of Despair; immedicabile vulnus. |
Warning | Handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flag; fog-signal, foghorn; siren; monitor, warning voice, Cassandra, signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Horizon |
| English words defined with "horizon": Apparent horizon, Artificial horizon ♦ celestial horizon ♦ Depression of the visible horizon, Dip of the horizon ♦ gyro horizon ♦ Quicksilver horizon ♦ Rational horizon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "horizon": argillic horizon ♦ cutting horizon ♦ datum horizon ♦ event horizon ♦ false horizon ♦ geoidal horizon, geometrical horizon ♦ horizon system of coordinates ♦ pedologic horizon, phantom horizon ♦ radar horizon, radio horizon. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "horizon": Orisont. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Horizon" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (horizon), French (horizon, outlook, vista). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | It's a new horizon and I'm awakin' now (Don't Look Back; performing artist: BOSTON) I wanna look at the horizon (Cowboy Take Me Away; performing artist: Dixie Chicks) On the road to my horizon (Rhinestone Cowboy; performing artist: Glen Campbell; writing credit: Larry Weiss) There's a threat of rain on the dark horizon (After The Rain Has Fallen; performing artist: Sting) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lost Horizon (1973) L' Horizon (1967) Cloven Horizon (1965) Above the Horizon (1964) Horizon (1964) | |
Song Titles | Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning) (performing artist: Vertical Horizon) Everything You Want (performing artist: Vertical Horizon) You're A God (performing artist: Vertical Horizon) | |
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 | This image was taken by Clementine as it came over the north lunar pole at thecompletion of mapping orbit 102 on March 13, 1994. The angular separation between lunar horizon and Earth has been reduced for illustration purposes.The large crater at the bottom of the image is Plaskett (180 W longitude, 82 N latitude).(A version of this image with just the Earth in the image is available on theNSSDC Photo Gallery: Earth page.). Credit: NASA. |  | Octant with simple artificial horizon in the form of a pendulum. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | The Clean Air Facility on a day without a horizon. Flags mark path. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | South Pole Station on a day without a horizon, near "white out" conditions. Flags mark path. One would literally feel like walking in a bowl of milk. There was no surface definition and one had to walk with bent knees because impossible to determine if surface was uneven. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Tuna purse seiner is deploying net with assistance of workboat which is seen at far end of net near horizon on upper right of picture. The boat appears as a small rectangle behind a vertical rope. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Stern view of menhaden vessel underway with auxiliary boats being towed astern and lookout scanning horizon for indications of schools of menhaden. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Area 1, a south southwest view from Mobile Canal looking across the narrowest beach section with the Gulf of Mexico on the horizon. A shrimp boat fishes on the horizon. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | The majestic beauty of the Grand Canyon-Parashant stretches far into the horizon of this photograph. Credit: Bette Ariel. |
 | The open road disappears into the horizon as the blue sky touches the ground. Credit: Lynn Chamberlain. |  | "Rising earth greets Apollo VIII astronauts as they come from behind the moon after the lunar orbit insertion burn. Earth is about 5 degrees above the horizon.". Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Information Agency. |
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| "Palm Horizon" by Mike Mays Commentary: "This idea popped into my head...have fun." | "Sea Stranded" by Ruben Rodriguez Commentary: "Stranded. Vast ocean, cloudless sky and small island in the horizon." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Henry Kissinger | For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. |
James Russell Lowell | To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. |
Thomas Paine | When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | The ship passed over the horizon, and I sank back into the armchair |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | An unvaried pall of cloud muffled the whole expanse of sky from zenith to horizon. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Hardly visible in the pallid gloom of the horizon. |
Something Wicked This Way Comes | Ray Bradbury | Those trains and their grieving sounds were lost forever between stations, not remembering where they had been, not guessing where they might go, exhaling their last pale breaths over the horizon, gone |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Only the unbalanced sky showed the approach of dawn, no horizon to the west, and a line to the east |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | That way I looked between and over the near green hills to some distant and higher ones in the horizon, tinged with blue |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | On the horizon, and as a matter of public record, are the intended purchases of CH-47 helicopters, 2 additional E-2T aircraft, additional missile, missile upgrade, radar, and Electronic Warfare systems. (references) | |
A meeting about environmental exports at the White House Conference Center in October 1999 identified the environmental market in Thailand as a “hot market country on the horizon,” meaning it had strong market potential that could be taken advantage of as the nation recovers from economic crisis. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Cote d'Ivoire | The only private television broadcaster, Canal Horizon, is foreign owned and operated via satellite from South Africa; it broadcasts no domestically produced programs. (references) |
Economic History | Russia | Policy makers are keenly aware of the risks on the horizon, most notably inflation. (references) |
Syria | Taken as a whole, Syrian economic reforms thus far have been incremental and gradual, with privatization not even on the distant horizon. (references) | |
Human Rights | Congo | There reportedly was no known action taken against members of the security forces responsible for torturing, beating, or otherwise abusing the persons in the following 1999 cases: The October case of Pascal Kusehuka, secretary general of the PALU opposition party for Bandundu Province; the September case of human rights NGO activist Wetemwani Katembo Merikas; the September case of Francois Mpoyi Mukandu, the legal advisor of the governor of Eastern Kasai Province, Marcel Mpuanga Mindu, who also was an attorney, and Ditutu bin Bwebwe, a court clerk; the July case of Professor Kambaj Wa Kambaji; the July case of Jean Marie Kashils of the Agence Congolaise de Presse and Bienvenu Tshiela of Kasai Horizon Radio Television; the June case of the owner of a dugout canoe known as Motinga; the June case of journalists for the daily newspaper Tempete des Tropiques; the May case of Colonel Ndoma Moteke; the May case of Christian Badibangi, president of the opposition party Union Socialist Congolaise; the May case of eight members of the opposition Parti Lumumbiste Unifie (PALU) party; the April case of Lambert Edimba; the March case of a journalist; the March case of two female money changers; the February case of Professor Tshibangu Kalala; the February case of Luyinumu Lelo Koko and Jonas Ndoko; the February case of Toussaint Muhavu Shankulu; the January case of newspaper publisher Thierry Kyalumba; and the January case of human rights activists Christophe Bintu and Bienvenu Kasole. (references) |
Political Economy | PANAMA | Slower growth and rising unemployment are likely on Panama's short-and medium-term horizon. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the sed of the Flashawful flabbergastor, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. "That," said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, "is the Meridian of Washington." H |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Were armies to be raised whenever a speck of war is visible in our horizon, we never should have been without them. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | We know the turbulence that lies below, and the storms that are beyond the horizon this year. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | At the back of the chair was painted the picture of a sun on the horizon. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Horizon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.71% of the time. "Horizon" is used about 1,265 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.71% | 1,198 | 6,462 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.29% | 67 | 40,952 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,265 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Ireland | Horizon Technology Group plc | New Zealand | Horizon Energy Distribution Limited |
| United Kingdom | Pacific Horizon Investment Trust Plc | USA | First Horizon Pharmaceuticals Corp |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "horizon": a horizon ♦ Apparent horizon ♦ appear on the horizon ♦ artificial horizon ♦ B horizon ♦ be on the horizon ♦ C horizon ♦ Celestial horizon ♦ clouds in the horizon ♦ datum horizon ♦ Depression of the visible horizon ♦ Dip of the horizon ♦ equator ecliptic horizon ♦ event horizon ♦ geological horizon ♦ gyro horizon ♦ Horizon City ♦ horizon sky ♦ on the horizon ♦ pay horizon ♦ quicksilver horizon ♦ radar horizon ♦ radio horizon ♦ rational horizon ♦ rational or celestial horizon ♦ scan the horizon ♦ scan the political horizon ♦ sensible horizon ♦ soil horizon ♦ true horizon ♦ visible horizon ♦ visual horizon. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "horizon": horizon-wide. | |
Ending with "horizon": A-horizon, B-horizon, Blue-horizon, C-horizon, near-horizon, over-the-horizon, the-horizon. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
horizon | 2,957 | horizon health care | 120 |
new horizon | 1,517 | horizon bank | 118 |
dark horizon | 807 | food horizon | 106 |
horizon air | 799 | blue horizon | 98 |
horizon airline | 783 | horizon blue cross blue shield of new jersey | 83 |
first horizon | 561 | horizon mmorpg | 80 |
first horizon home loan | 490 | computer horizon | 77 |
vertical horizon | 453 | horizon casino | 76 |
horizon hobby | 435 | horizon casino resort | 74 |
secure horizon | 228 | horizon mortgage | 69 |
bright horizon | 221 | horizon home | 65 |
first horizon mortgage | 211 | five horizon | 64 |
horizon blue cross blue shield | 194 | game horizon | 62 |
bcbsnj.com horizon | 171 | new horizon learning center | 62 |
event horizon | 167 | the line of the horizon | 60 |
standard horizon | 167 | horizon credit union | 58 |
horizon blue cross | 165 | future horizon | 57 |
vertical horizon lyrics | 146 | horizon lake tahoe | 52 |
new horizon computer learning center | 131 | horizon wireless | 49 |
lost horizon | 122 | horizon mercy | 48 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "horizon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | horizont (reach, scope, skyline, span, width), shtresë (bed, coat, coating, course, covering, estate, flake, floor, layer, nappe, reach, region, seam, sheet, strata, stratum, streak, tract, wash), fushëpamje (sight). (various references) | |
Arabic | الأ فق, أفق المرء العقلي. (various references) | |
Aymara | chhaqachhaqa. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хоризонт (level, skyline), кръгозор (scope, view). (various references) | |
Chinese | 地平線 , 涯 (border, shore), 天际 (A-horizon). (various references) | |
Czech | horizont (backcloth, sea-line, skyline), obzor (horizon sky, view). (various references) | |
Danish | horisont (soil horizon, zone). (various references) | |
Dutch | kim (bilge, bilge plank, bilge plate, bilge trake, chine), horizon (soil horizon, zone), gezichtseinder. (various references) | |
Esperanto | horizonto. (various references) | |
Faeroese | sjónarringur. (various references) | |
Farsi | خطافق , افق فکری , افق , بوسیله افق محدودکردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | horisontti (soil horizon), taivaanranta. (various references) | |
French | horizon (soil horizon). (various references) | |
Frisian | hoarizon, kim, gesichtsein. (various references) | |
German | horizont (skyline, zone), gesichtskreis (field of vision, outlook). (various references) | |
Greek | ορίζων (soil horizon, zone). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חוג הארץ, אפק (level, vista). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szemhatár (eyeshot), látóhatár (ken), horizont, szint (bench, floor, level, mark, plane, rate, storey, story), rétegszint, munkaszint. (various references) | |
Icelandic | sjóndeildarhringur. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kaki langit (skyline), cakrawala (firmament, heavens, sky), akanan. (various references) | |
Italian | orizzonte (hardpan, pan, soil horizon, zone). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 空際 (point where the sky meets the earth), 地平線 , ホモ牛乳 (German cow race, holiday, Holstein, holster, homogenized milk, horror), 水平線 , 水平 (water level), 天際 , 天涯 (distant land, heavenly shores, remote, skyline), 天涯 (distant land, heavenly shores, remote region, skyline). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すいへいせん, すいへい (decline, sailor, water level), ホリゾント , くうさい (point where the sky meets the earth), てんがい (beyond the heavens, canopy, distant land, dome, farthest regions, heavenly shores, priestly minstrel's reed hood, remote region, skyline), てんさい (disaster, genius, natural calamity, natural gift, prodigy, reprinting, sugar beet), ちへいせん. (various references) | |
Korean | 수평선 (A-horizon). (various references) | |
Manx | oirr ny cruinney, bun ny speyrey (skyline). (various references) | |
Norwegian | horisont. (various references) | |
Papiamen | hórizòn. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orizonhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | horizonte (fishing line, sea-line). (various references) | |
Romanian | zarişte, zare (brilliance, brilliancy, summit), oriunde în altã parte (anywhere else), adâncime (abyss, bottom, deep, deepness, depth, height, pregnancy, profound, profoundness, profundity, wisdom). (various references) | |
Romansch | orizont. (various references) | |
Romany | devlèskere pògya. (various references) | |
Russian | горизонт (level, skyline). (various references) | |
Scottish | fàire (break of day, the horizon). (various references) | |
Sepedi | bogomapono. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | horizont (sealine), vidokrug (eyeshot, ken, perspective, reach, sight, view). (various references) | |
Shona | jengachenga. (various references) | |
Spanish | horizonte (skyline). (various references) | |
Swedish | horisont (skyline). (various references) | |
Thai | ขอบเขตความรู้, ขอบฟ้า. (various references) | |
Turkish | ufuk (scope). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кругозір (eyesight, outlook, purview, view, world), горизонт (bed, orison). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tầm nhận thức. (various references) | |
Welsh | gorwel. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 1. ar, an-ur, ki-ar. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | horizon kyklos. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "horizon": horizonal, horizonless, horizons, horizontal, horizontalities, horizontality, horizontally, horizontals. (additional references) | |
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"Horizon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chorikon, Corizon, harion, Herziana, horison, horiz, horizen, horizion, horizont, Huizhong, orizon, thorofon, Torrizone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "horizon" (pronounced herī"zun) |
| 4 | -ī" z u n | Mizen, wizen. |
| 3 | -z u n | arisen, artisan, bipartisan, brazen, chosen, citizen, cousin, crimson, denizen, dozen, emblazon, frozen, Hausen, Hazan, imprison, nonpartisan, partisan, poison, prison, reason, risen, rosin, season, thousand, treason, unfrozen. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-n-o-o-r-z" | |
-2 letters: honor, rhino. | |
-3 letters: horn, inro, iron, noir, nori, orzo, zoon, zori. | |
-4 letters: hin, hon, ion, noh, noo, nor, oho, ooh, rho, rin, zin, zoo. | |
-5 letters: hi, ho, in, no, oh, on, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-n-o-o-r-z" | |
+1 letter: horizons. | |
+2 letters: horizonal. | |
+3 letters: horizontal. | |
+4 letters: homogenizer, horizonless, horizontals, rhizoctonia. | |
+5 letters: anthologizer, homogenizers, horizontally, rhizoctonias, theorization. | |
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