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:
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[edit] Business
- Horizon Global, a corporation specializing in media-compression technology, peer to peer video telephony, and video on demand
- Horizon Pipeline, a small natural gas pipeline that moves gas in northern Illinois
- Horizon Power, a corporation owned by the Government of Western Australia
- Planning horizon, the amount of time an organisation will look into the future when preparing a strategic plan
[edit] Computer science
- Horizon of connectivity, the boundary in most client-server architectures that limits access to server-based resources
- NorthStar Horizon, an 8-bit computer system based on the ZiLOG Z80A microprocessor
- Split horizon, one of the methods in computer networks used to prevent routing loops
[edit] Education
- Horizon High School, a public high school open to all students for grades 9-12
- Horizon Science Academy, a group of charter schools which is owned by Concept Schools in Ohio
- École secondaire l'Horizon, a french public secondary school in Quebec
[edit] Geology, soil science and archeology
[edit] Music
- ESP Horizon, a guitar model distributed by ESP
- Horizon Records, an American record label
- Horizon (Remioromen album), the third album of the Japanese band Remioromen
- Horizon (Carpenters album), an album by The Carpenters released in 1975
- Horizons (album), an album by Parkway Drive
- "Horizons", a song for mixed choir
[edit] Physics
- Absolute horizon, a boundary in spacetime in general relativity inside of which events cannot affect an external observer
- Apparent horizon, a surface defined in general relativity
- Cauchy horizon, a surface found in the study of Cauchy problems
- Celestial horizon, a great circle parallel to the horizon
- Cosmological horizon, a limit of observability
- Event horizon, a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect the observer
- Killing horizon, a null surface on which there is a Killing vector field
- Particle horizon, the maximum distance from which particles can have travelled to an observer in the age of the universe
[edit] Radio
- Horizon Radio (UK), the pop-format Independent Local Radio station for Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire
- Horizon 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
[edit] Spacecraft
- New Horizons, the first spacecraft expected to flyby and study the ex-planet Pluto.
[edit] Television
- Horizon (BBC TV series), a long-running television strand on BBC television showing popular science documentaries
- Horizon (KAET TV program), 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), a US television program aimed at Greeks abroad
[edit] Transportation
- Artificial horizon, an instrument used in an aircraft to inform the pilot of the orientation of the airplane relative to the ground
- Chrysler Horizon, a car designed by Chrysler Europe
- Horizon Air, a regional airline and subsidiary of the Alaska Air Group
- Horizon Airlines (Australia), an Australian airline based in Sydney
- Horizon class frigate, a multi-national collaboration to produce a new generation of anti-air warfare frigates
- Horizon Fleet, an Amtrak passenger car used mostly in the Midwest
[edit] Other
- Horizon (camera), a swing-lens panoramic camera manufactured in Russia
- Horizon (World of Darkness), a term used in the old World of Darkness role-playing game
- Horizon class frigate, a Franco-Italian design.
- Horizon League, a collegiate athletic conference in the midwestern USA
- Horizon (magazine), founded by Cyril Connolly, Stephen Spender and Peter Watson
- Horizon, a hard cover periodical about art and culture; sister publication to American Heritage
- Horizons (Epcot attraction), a former Epcot Center attraction at Walt Disney World
- Horizons: Empire of Istaria, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Artifact Entertainment
- Horizons: Software Starter Pack, an early software compilation for the ZX Spectrum
- Project Horizon, a study to determine the feasibility of the construction of a military base on the moon conducted in 1959
- Horizon (typeface)
[edit] See also
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