Horizon (disambiguation)
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Horizon
is the line at which the sky and the Earth's surface appear to meet.
Horizon or horizons may also refer to:
Horizon
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., and the resulting...
is the line at which the sky and the Earth's surface appear to meet.
Horizon or horizons may also refer to:
Business
- Horizon GlobalHorizon GlobalHorizon Global is a corporation specializing in media-compression technology, peer to peer video telephony, video on demand, and real-time satellite imaging hardware.The company's headquarters are in Double Bay, Sydney....
, a corporation specializing in media-compression technology, peer to peer video telephony, and video on demand - Horizon Global ElectronicsHorizon Global ElectronicsHorizon Global Electronics is an electronics company. Founded in UK in 2001, it manufactures Satellite, Terrestrial and Cable Identification and alignment meters for MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, and the ATSC, DVB and ISDB standards....
, an electronics company - Horizon PipelineHorizon PipelineHorizon Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline in northern Illinois, USA. Its FERC code is 178.The pipeline is owned and operated by Horizon Pipeline Company LLC, a joint venture of the Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America , owned by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, and Nicor...
, a small natural gas pipeline that moves gas in northern Illinois - Horizon PowerHorizon PowerHorizon Power is a commercially focused, State Government-owned power company that provides power supplies to Western Australia. It is responsible for generating, procuring, distributing and retailing electricity to residential, industrial and commercial customers and resource developments in its...
, a corporation owned by the Government of Western Australia - Horizon Realty Group, a Chicago real estate management company widely known for suing its tenant for alleged defamation via Twitter in Horizon Group v. BonnenHorizon Group v. BonnenHorizon Group v. Bonnen was a libel suit brought by Horizon Realty Group, a Chicago real estate management company, against one of its former tenants, Amanda Bonnen, in Cook County Circuit Court. This case has received extensive publicity and touches on issues such as consumer protection, limits of...
- Horizon SoftwareHorizon SoftwareHorizon Software is a multi-national financial software company that provides technology for financial institutions. Jean-Marc Delfarguiel, its current CEO, created the company in 1998. Since then, Horizon Software has developed software for options pricing, market making, order management systems,...
, a company specializing in financial software for financial institutions - Planning horizonPlanning horizonThe planning horizon is the amount of time an organization will look into the future when preparing a strategic plan. Many commercial companies use a five-year planning horizon, but other organizations such as the Forestry Commission in the UK have to use a much longer planning horizon to form...
, the amount of time an organisation will look into the future when preparing a strategic plan
Computer science
- Horizon effectHorizon effectThe horizon effect is a problem in artificial intelligence where, in many games, the number of possible states or positions is immense and computers can only feasibly search a small portion of it, typically a few ply down the game tree...
, in Artificial intelligence, the computational limit beyond which conventional game tree search algorithms make suboptimal decisions - NorthStar HorizonNorthStar HorizonIntroduced in October 1977, the NorthStar Horizon was an 8-bit computer system based on the ZiLOG Z80A microprocessor. It was produced by North Star Computers, and it could be purchased either in kit form or pre-assembled....
, an 8-bit computer system based on the ZiLOG Z80A microprocessor - Split horizon route advertisement, one of the methods in computer networks used to prevent routing loops
Education
- Horizon High School (disambiguation), a public high school open to all students for grades 9-12
- Horizon Science AcademyHorizon Science AcademyHorizon Science Academy is a college preparatory community charter school funded by public sources, operating at several locations in the state of Ohio...
, a group of charter schools which is owned by Concept Schools in Ohio - École secondaire l'HorizonÉcole secondaire l'HorizonÉcole secondaire l'Horizon is a French-language public secondary school located in Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Quebec, Canada. It is located on Place Centre-ville in the downtown sector of Saint-Jean-Chrysostome and is run by the Commission scolaire des Navigateurs school board...
, a french public secondary school in Quebec
Geology, soil science and archeology
- Soil horizonSoil horizonA soil horizon is a specific layer in the land area that is parallel to the soil surface and possesses physical characteristics which differ from the layers above and beneath. Horizon formation is a function of a range of geological, chemical, and biological processes and occurs over long time...
, a specific and distinctive layer in a land area - Archaeological horizon, a specific and distinctive period of artifacts in an archeological site
Music
- ESP HorizonESP HorizonESP Horizon is a guitar model distributed by ESP....
, a guitar model distributed by ESP - Horizon RecordsHorizon RecordsHorizon Records was started as a folk and blues record label by Dave Hubert in 1960.It was originally distributed by World Pacific Records. When Vee-Jay Records acquired World Pacific in 1963, it also took over the distribution of Horizon....
, an American record label - Horizon (band)Horizon (band)Horizon was a German progressive metal/power metal band.-History:Horizon was formed in 1998 by drummer Krissy Friedrich and guitarist Patrick Hemer. After a self-produced debut, they were introduced to Massacre Records by Kosta Zafiriou of Pink Cream 69 and had their first worldwide release, “The...
, a German Metal band - Horizon (Culture Beat album) (1991)
- Horizon (Eddie Rabbitt album)Horizon (Eddie Rabbitt album)Horizon was the sixth studio album of Country music artist Eddie Rabbitt. It was released in 1980 under the Elektra Records label. The album produced two singles, both of which reached number one on country charts. The lead-off single "Drivin' My Life Away" reached number 5 on the Billboard 100 and...
(1980) - Horizon (Remioromen album) (2006)
- Horizon (Carpenters album)Horizon (The Carpenters album)Horizon is the sixth consecutive platinum-certified album by American musical duo The Carpenters. It was recorded at A&M Records and recorded at 30 inches per second)...
(1975) - "Horizon" (song) (2008), a single of the Japanese band D'espairsRay
- Horizons (Parkway Drive album) (2007), an album by Parkway Drive
- "Horizons", a song by Genesis from the album FoxtrotFoxtrot (album)Foxtrot is the fourth studio album by English progressive rock band Genesis and the second from the band line-up which included Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, and Steve Hackett.-History:...
(1972) - Horizon, popular music track from MMORPGMMORPGMassively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....
RuneScapeRuneScapeRuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game released in January 2001 by Andrew and Paul Gower, and developed and published by Jagex Games Studio. It is a graphical browser game implemented on the client-side in Java, and incorporates 3D rendering...
Periodicals
- Horizon (magazine)Horizon (magazine)Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art was an influential literary magazine published in London, between 1940 and 1949. It was edited by Cyril Connolly who gave a platform to a wide range of distinguished and emerging writers....
, British magazine, 1940–1949, founded by Cyril Connolly, Stephen Spender and Peter Watson - Horizon (U.S. magazine)Horizon (U.S. magazine)Horizon was a magazine published in the United States from 1958 to 1989. Originally published by American Heritage as a bi-monthly hardback, Horizon was subtitled A Magazine of the Arts. In 1978 Boone Inc. bought the magazine, which continued to cover the arts...
, U.S. magazine, 1958–1989, originally published by American Heritage - Horizon WeeklyHorizon WeeklyHorizon Weekly is an Armenian Canadian newspaper publication and is the official political organ of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation 's Canadian Central Committee.- History :...
, Armenian-Canadian newspaper publication - The Horizon: A Journal of the Color LineThe Horizon: A Journal of the Color LineThe Horizon: A Journal of the Color Line was a monthly periodical in publication during the years 1907 to 1910. It was the primary communication outlet for the Niagara Movement. The magazine was edited by African-American editor, scholar, and author W.E.B. Du Bois. The magazine was written...
, U. S. magazine, 1907-1919, edited by W. E. B. Du Bois
Physics
- Absolute horizonAbsolute horizonIn general relativity, an absolute horizon is a boundary in spacetime, defined with respect to the external universe, inside of which events cannot affect an external observer. Light emitted inside the horizon can never reach the observer, and anything that passes through the horizon from the...
, a boundary in spacetime in general relativity inside of which events cannot affect an external observer - Apparent horizonApparent horizonIn general relativity, an apparent horizon is a surface that is the boundary between light rays that are directed outwards and moving outwards, and those directed outwards but moving inwards.Apparent horizons are not invariant properties of a spacetime...
, a surface defined in general relativity - Cauchy horizonCauchy horizonIn physics, a Cauchy horizon is a light-like boundary of the domain of validity of a Cauchy problem...
, a surface found in the study of Cauchy problems - Celestial horizonCelestial horizonThe celestial horizon, also called the rational horizon, is a great circle parallel to the horizon, in which a plane at right angles to Zenith and Nadir lines are passing through the centre of the earth and intersects the celestial sphere, the center of which is the center of the Earth....
, a great circle parallel to the horizon - Cosmological horizon, a limit of observability: the maximum distance from which particles can have travelled to an observer in the age of the universe
- Event horizonEvent horizonIn general relativity, an event horizon is a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer. In layman's terms it is defined as "the point of no return" i.e. the point at which the gravitational pull becomes so great as to make escape impossible. The most common case...
, a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect the observer - Killing horizonKilling horizonA Killing horizon is a null hypersurface on which there is a null Killing vector field .Associated to a Killing horizon is a geometrical quantity known as surface gravity, \kappa...
, a null surface on which there is a Killing vector field
Radio
- Heart 103.3Heart 103.3Heart Milton Keynes was an Independent Local Radio station for Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire. Broadcasting on 103.3FM from the Bow Brickhill transmitter, the station was part of Global Radio's Heart Network...
, or Horizon Radio (UK), a UK radio station - Horizont (radio), a state-owned Bulgarian Radio Station
- Radio horizon, the locus of points in telecommunication at which direct rays from an antenna are tangential to the surface of the Earth
Spacecraft
- New HorizonsNew HorizonsNew Horizons is a NASA robotic spacecraft mission currently en route to the dwarf planet Pluto. It is expected to be the first spacecraft to fly by and study Pluto and its moons, Charon, Nix, Hydra and S/2011 P 1. Its estimated arrival date at the Pluto-Charon system is July 14th, 2015...
, the first spacecraft expected to flyby and study the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons.
Television
- Horizon (BBC TV series), a long-running television strand on BBC television showing popular science documentaries
- Horizon (KAET TV program)Horizon (KAET TV program)Horizon is a current events television program produced by KAET in Phoenix, Arizona. It is one of the two locally produced news program for KAET, the other being its sister program, Horizonte.-Format:...
, is a current events television program produced by Arizona-based KAET - "Horizon" (Enterprise episode), a second season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
- Horizon (Stargate), an experimental space-based weapon seen in the television series Stargate: Atlantis
- Horizons (TV series)Horizons (TV series)Horizons is a program that primarily aims at Greeks that live abroad and is also named after. The show is hosted by Christos Nezos and is broadcast from New York, New York. Horizons is primarily broadcast on Mega Cosmos every Sunday nights at 9:00 p.m. in North America and the late-evening hours...
, a US television program aimed at Greeks abroad
Transportation
- Attitude indicatorAttitude indicatorAn attitude indicator , also known as gyro horizon or artificial horizon, is an instrument used in an aircraft to inform the pilot of the orientation of the aircraft relative to earth. It indicates pitch and bank or roll and is a primary instrument for flight in instrument meteorological conditions...
, or Artificial horizon, an instrument used in an aircraft to inform the pilot of the orientation of the airplane relative to the ground - Chrysler HorizonChrysler HorizonThe Horizon was a subcompact automobile developed by Chrysler Europe and was sold in Europe between 1977 and 1985 under the Chrysler, Simca and Talbot nameplates...
, a car designed by Chrysler Europe - Fisher HorizonFisher Horizon|-See also:-External links:****...
, a kit aircraft - Hawker Horizon, the original name of the Hawker 4000 business jet
- Horizon AirHorizon AirHorizon Air Industries, Inc. is a regional low-cost airline based in SeaTac, Washington, United States. It is the eighth largest regional airline in the USA, serving 52 cities in the United States, Canada and Mexico....
, a regional airline and subsidiary of the Alaska Air Group - Horizon Airlines (Australia)Horizon Airlines (Australia)Horizon Airlines was an Australian airline based in Sydney. It predominantly operated night time cargo services on contract to Australian air Express using BAe 748 and Fairchild Metroliner aircraft but also operated some passenger services. The airline ceased operations in March 2004.In November...
, an Australian airline based in Sydney - Horizon class frigateHorizon class frigateThe Horizon Common New Generation Frigate is a multi-national collaboration to produce a new generation of anti-air warfare frigates. Originally an alliance of Britain, France and Italy, the project is now a French/Italian effort following the withdrawal of Britain due to differing requirements...
, a multi-national collaboration to produce a new generation of anti-air warfare frigates - Horizon (railcar)Horizon (railcar)Amtrak's Horizon Fleet are rail cars based upon the Comet II commuter coach design. The coaches were built by Bombardier Transportation in Barre, Vermont in 1989.-Car design:...
, an Amtrak passenger car used mostly in the Midwest
Other
- Horizon (camera)Horizon (camera)The Horizon is a mechanical swing-lens panoramic camera. It is manufactured by Krasnogorskiy Zavod in Krasnogorsk, Russia, better-known for their range of Zenit cameras.Cameras with similar functions include the Noblex and Widelux....
, a swing-lens panoramic camera manufactured in Russia - Horizon (film)Horizon (film)Horizon is a Hungarian film directed by Pál Gábor. It was released in 1971.-Cast:* Péter Fried - Karesz* Lujza Orosz - Karesz anyja* Szilvia Marossy - Ágnes* József Madaras - Autószerelõ* Zsuzsa Bognár - Rózsa* Zoltán Vadász - Hajdú elvtárs...
, a 1971 Hungarian film - Horizon (World of Darkness), a term used in the World of Darkness role-playing game
- Horizon class frigateHorizon class frigateThe Horizon Common New Generation Frigate is a multi-national collaboration to produce a new generation of anti-air warfare frigates. Originally an alliance of Britain, France and Italy, the project is now a French/Italian effort following the withdrawal of Britain due to differing requirements...
, a Franco-Italian design. - Horizon LeagueHorizon LeagueThe Horizon League is a ten school, NCAA Division I college athletic conference whose members are located in five of the Midwestern United States....
, a collegiate athletic conference in the midwestern USA - Horizons (Epcot attraction)Horizons (Epcot attraction)Horizons was the name of a dark ride attraction at Epcot , a theme park at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida USA. Located on the eastern side of the "Future World" section of Epcot, the attraction used Disney's Omnimover conveyance system, which took guests past show scenes depicting...
, a former Epcot Center attraction at Walt Disney World - Horizons: Empire of Istaria, the former name of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted by Artifact Entertainment
- Horizons: Software Starter PackHorizons: Software Starter PackHorizons: Software Starter Pack is a software compilation for the ZX Spectrum, designed by Psion Software Ltd and published by Sinclair Research Ltd in 1982....
, an early software compilation for the ZX Spectrum - Project HorizonProject HorizonProject Horizon was a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a scientific / military base on the Moon. On June 8, 1959, a group at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency produced for the U.S. Department of the Army a report entitled Project Horizon, A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment...
, a study to determine the feasibility of the construction of a military base on the moon conducted in 1959 - Horizons (fusion of)Fusion of horizons"Fusion of horizons" is a dialectical concept which results from the rejection of two alternatives: objectivism, whereby the objectification of the other is premised on the forgetting of oneself; and absolute knowledge, according to which universal history can be articulated within a single horizon...
, understanding that results from the dynamic process of integrating the 'Other' and the familiar. See: Gadamer