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Horizon (disambiguation)

The horizon is the line at which the sky and the Earth's surface appear to meet.

Horizon or The Horizon may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Art

Films

Music

Bands

Albums

Songs

Publications

Periodicals

Works

Television

Web series

Video games

  • Horizon (video game series), a series of action role-playing games developed by Guerrilla Games
  • Horizon Zero Dawn, a 2017 video game for the PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows
  • Horizon Forbidden West, a 2022 sequel for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Microsoft Windows
  • ', the original name of the MMORPG Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted
  • Forza Horizon, a 2012 open world racing game for Xbox 360, which became a sub-series for the Forza racing game franchise
  • ', a 2020 video game for the Nintendo Switch
  • Horizon, a playable character in the game Apex Legends

Organizations

Companies

Events

  • Horizons Gorwelion, an annual festival aimed at promoting independent contemporary new music in Wales
  • Orizzonti (Horizons), a parallel section of the Venice Film Festival

Radio and television providers

Schools

Other organizations

Places

Science

Computing

  • Horizon effect, in artificial intelligence: the computational limit beyond which conventional game-tree search algorithms make suboptimal decisions
  • , a 1982 software compilation for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum
  • North Star Horizon, 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
  • Omnissa Horizon, a commercial desktop-virtualisation product released in 2014 (formerly called VMware Horizon and VMware Horizon View)
  • Nintendo Switch system software, internally known as Horizon
  • Horizon, a social platform being built by Meta Platforms, encompassing Horizon Home, Horizon Worlds, Horizon Workrooms, Horizon Venues and Horizon Marketplace
  • Horizon accounting system, the Fujitsu IT and accounting system at the heart of the British Post Office scandal

Earth science and archeology

  • Horizon (archaeology), a distinctive sediment, artefact, style or other cultural trait that is found at archaeological sites across a large geographical area
  • Horizon (geology), a bedding plane or a thin bed of distinctive character within a stratigraphic sequence
  • Marker horizon, a distinctive stratigraphic unit, of the same age across several locations
  • Soil horizon, a specific and distinctive layer in a land area

Physics

  • Horizon (general relativity), that play a role in Einstein's theory of general relativity
  • 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: the maximum distance from which particles can have travelled to an observer in the age of the universe
  • Event horizon, a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect the observer
  • JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System, an interactive facility that computes the position of many solar system objects
  • Killing horizon, a null surface on which there is a Killing vector field
  • Radio horizon, the locus of points in telecommunication at which direct rays from an antenna are tangential to the surface of the Earth

Transportation

  • Horizon (railcar), an Amtrak passenger car used mostly in the Midwest
  • Attitude indicator, or Artificial horizon, an instrument used in an aircraft to inform the pilot of the orientation of the airplane relative to the ground
  • , a cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line
  • Chrysler Horizon, also known as the Talbot Horizon, a compact hatchback designed by Chrysler Europe
  • Honda Horizon, an SUV based on the Isuzu Trooper
  • Fisher Horizon, a kit aircraft
  • Hawker Horizon, the original name of the Hawker 4000 business jet
  • Halman Horizon, a Canadian sailboat design
  • 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
  • , a cruise ship operated by Pullmantur Cruises

Other uses

  • Project Horizon, a study to determine the feasibility of the construction of a military base on the moon conducted in 1959
  • Fusion of horizons, a philosophical understanding that results from the dynamic process of integrating the 'Other' and the familiar
  • Time horizon, the amount of time an organisation will look into the future when preparing a strategic plan

See also