horizon

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

horizons

1.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: skysill, skyline
2.
(figuratively)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.
3.
The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
4.
(geology) A specific layer of soil, or stratum
5.
(US)(archaeology, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
6.
Any level line or surface.
7.
(computer chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.

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Đồng nghĩa

skysillskyline

Cùng gốc / liên quan

antihorizoncircumhorizonhorizonalhorizonlesshorizonwardhorizonwardssubhorizonsuperhorizonunhorizonedA-horizonarchaeological horizonarcheological horizonartificial horizonCauchy horizoncosmic event horizoncosmological horizondip of the horizonevent horizonGreisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin horizonGZK horizon

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Nguồn gốc từ

Middle English orisonte, orisoun, from Middle French horizon, horizonte, from Old French orisonte, orison, via Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων, from ὅρος (boundary).