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horizons
noun(ho-ri-zon)the line where the earth seems to meet the sky : the apparent junction of earth and sky
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noun(ho-ri-zon)the great circle on the celestial sphere formed by the intersection of the celestial sphere with a plane tangent to the earth's surface at an observer's position
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noun(ho-ri-zon)range of perception or experience
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noun(ho-ri-zon)the uppermost dark-colored layer of a soil consisting largely of partly disintegrated organic debris
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noun(ho-ri-zon)a gyroscopic flight instrument designed to indicate aircraft attitude with respect to the true horizon
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noun(ho-ri-zon)a subsurface soil layer that is immediately beneath the A horizon from which it obtains organic matter chiefly by illuviation and is usually distinguished by less weathering
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noun(ho-ri-zon)the soil layer lying beneath the B horizon and consisting essentially of more or less weathered parent rock
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noun(ho-ri-zon)the surface of a black hole : the boundary of a black hole beyond which nothing can escape from within it
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noun(ho-ri-zon)artificial horizon
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idiom(ho-ri-zon)to increase the range of one's knowledge, understanding, or experience