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The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.

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horizon

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Source Word

horizon

IPA(Pronunciation)

/həˈɹaɪ.zən/

Noun

figuratively US

The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.

Japanese Meaning

地平線

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As the sun dipped below the horizon, the sky blazed with orange and purple.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

太陽が地平線の下に沈むと、空はオレンジ色と紫色に燃え上がった。

Sense（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 horizon.

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Sense（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.

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Sense（3）

The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.

Only mortality, this irreducible and primordial horizon, that very horizon which, in Being and Time, Heidegger so compellingly revealed as the unsurpassable and defining possibility, remains.

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Sense（4）

(geology) A specific layer of soil, or stratum

Sense（5）

(archaeology, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.

Sense（6）

Any level line or surface.

Sense（7）

(chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.

horizons

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