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horizon
English
Etymology
From Old French orizon, via Latin horiz?n, from Ancient Greek ?????? (horíz?n), from ???? (hóros, “boundary”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h???a?z?n/
Noun
horizon (plural horizons)
- The visible horizontal line or point (in all directions) that appears to connect the Earth to the sky.
- Synonyms: skysill, skyline
- (figuratively) The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold.
- 1997, Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Monthly Review Press, page 38:
- The Indians of the Americas totaled no less than 70 million when the foreign conquerors appeared on the horizon; a century and a half later they had been reduced to 3.5 million.
- 1997, Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Monthly Review Press, page 38:
- The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
- (geology) A specific layer of soil or strata
- (archaeology, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
- Any level line or surface.
- (chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.
Derived terms
- archaeological horizon
- artificial horizon
- event horizon
- radar horizon
Related terms
- horizontal
- aorist
Translations
See also
- vertical
Further reading
- horizon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horiz?n, from Ancient Greek ?????? (horíz?n), from ???? (hóros, “boundary”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??o?.ri.z?n/
Noun
horizon m (plural horizonten or horizonnen)
- horizon
- Synonyms: kim, einder
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: horizon
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horiz?n, from Ancient Greek ?????? (horíz?n), from ???? (hóros, “boundary”).
Pronunciation
- (mute h) IPA(key): /?.?i.z??/
- Homophone: horizons
- Hyphenation: ho?ri?zon
Noun
horizon m (plural horizons)
- horizon
Derived terms
- bleu horizon
- horizon des événements
- horizon rationnel
- horizon sensible
- horizonner
- horizontal
- ligne d'horizon
- tour d'horizon
Further reading
- “horizon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch horizon, from Latin horiz?n, from Ancient Greek ?????? (horíz?n), from ???? (hóros, “boundary”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ho?riz?n]
- Hyphenation: ho?ri?zon
Noun
horizon (first-person possessive horizonku, second-person possessive horizonmu, third-person possessive horizonnya)
- horizon:
- the visible horizontal line or point (in all directions) that appears to connect the Earth to the sky.
- Synonym: cakrawala
- (geoglogy) a specific layer of soil or strata.
- the visible horizontal line or point (in all directions) that appears to connect the Earth to the sky.
- (in extension) sky, atmosphere, space
- Synonyms: ambara, angkasa, awang-awang, bumantara, cakrawala, dirgantara, langit, udara
Compounds
Further reading
- “horizon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (horíz?n).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ho?riz.zo?n/, [h????z?d??z?o?n]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /o?rid.d?zon/, [???id???z??n]
Noun
horiz?n m (genitive horizontis); third declension
- horizon
Declension
Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -?n).
Descendants
References
- horizon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- horizon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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cirrocumulus
English
Noun
cirrocumulus (plural cirrocumuli)
- (physics, meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type appearing as a thin, white patch of cloud without shadows, composed of very small droplets in the form of grains or ripples. The elements may be merged or separate, and more or less regularly arranged; they subtend an angle of less than 1° when observed at an angle of more than 30° above the horizon. Holes or rifts often occur in a sheet of cirrocumulus. Abbreviated Cc.
Translations
References
- Source: FM 3-6 Field Behavior of NBC Agents.
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sir?o?kumulus/, [?s?ir?o??kumulus?]
Noun
cirrocumulus
- Synonym of palleropilvi (“cirrocumulus”)
Declension
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