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PRONUNCIATION OF ARTIFICIAL HORIZON

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ARTIFICIAL HORIZON

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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Artificial horizon is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ARTIFICIAL HORIZON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

artificial horizon

Attitude indicator

An attitude indicator, also known as gyro horizon or artificial horizon or attitude director indicator, is an instrument used in an aircraft to inform the pilot of the orientation of the aircraft relative to Earth's horizon. It indicates pitch and bank or roll and is a primary instrument for flight in instrument meteorological conditions. Attitude indicators also have significant application under visual flight rules, though most light aircraft are not required to have them installed for VFR operation. Attitude indicators are also used on manned spacecraft, where they indicate the craft's yaw angle as well as pitch and roll, relative to a fixed-space inertial reference frame.

Definition of artificial horizon in the English dictionary

The definition of artificial horizon in the dictionary is Also called: gyro horizon. an aircraft instrument, using a gyroscope, that indicates the aircraft's attitude in relation to the horizontal. Other definition of artificial horizon is a level reflecting surface, such as one of mercury, that measures the altitude of a celestial body as half the angle between the body and its reflection.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ARTIFICIAL HORIZON

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WORDS THAT END LIKE ARTIFICIAL HORIZON

A horizon
apparent horizon
B horizon
C horizon
celestial horizon
Deepwater Horizon
event horizon
gyro horizon
horizon
on the horizon
sensible horizon
visible horizon

Synonyms and antonyms of artificial horizon in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «artificial horizon» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ARTIFICIAL HORIZON

Find out the translation of artificial horizon to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of artificial horizon from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «artificial horizon» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

人工地平
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

horizonte artificial
570 millions of speakers

English

artificial horizon
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कृत्रिम क्षितिज
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأفق الاصطناعي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

авиагоризонтом
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

horizonte artificial
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কৃত্রিম দিগন্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

horizon artificiel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cakrawala buatan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

künstlichen Horizont
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

人工水平儀
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

인공 수평선
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Horizontal buatan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chân trời nhân tạo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

செயற்கை அடிவானம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कृत्रिम क्षितीज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Suni ufuk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

orizzonte artificiale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sztuczny horyzont
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

авіагоризонт
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

orizont artificial
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τεχνητό ορίζοντα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kunsmatige horison
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

artificiell horisont
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kunstig horisont
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of artificial horizon

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ARTIFICIAL HORIZON»

The term «artificial horizon» is normally little used and occupies the 114.488 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ARTIFICIAL HORIZON» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about artificial horizon

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ARTIFICIAL HORIZON»

Discover the use of artificial horizon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to artificial horizon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Artificial Horizon: Imagining the Blue Mountains
Martin Thomas takes the reader on a journey through a compelling study of culture, landscape and mythology.
Martin Edward Thomas, 2004
2
Artificial Horizon
Synopsis: Set in the Middle East in the 1970's, Artificial Horizon reveals the secrets of four pilots and their wives who are working for a newly expanding airline.
Raynor Woods, Valerie R Clifton, 2012
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Description of an Artificial Horizon invented by A. B. ...
of observing; within those limits the horizon of mercury never fails; but there are no such limits to the artificial horizon, which it is proposed here to describe. On shore it may be used at all times as a substitute for the mercurial horizon, when this ...
Alexander Bridport BECHER, 1844
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The Edinburgh encyclopædia conducted by David Brewster, with ...
nlar SO and AD = consequence to be possessed of what is called an artificial horizon. These have been constructed of a great variety of forms, such as vessels filled with mercury, oil, or tar, pendulums, plumb lines, and levels; some of the most ...
David Brewster, 1832
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The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette
ETTRICK'S IMPROVEMENTS IN THK MARINER'S COMPASS — ARTIFICIAL HORIZON, ETC. SIR, — With a few solitary exceptions, the attempts at improvements on nautical apparatus, promulgated by landsmen, are altogether worthless ...
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Encyclopaedia; Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ...
HE importance of every invention which tends to facilitate Navigation is such as to entitle it to be recorded for the benefit of mankind, particularly in Commercial Nations. In this view the accounts of the Artificial Horizon and the New Log are ...
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Pilot Here Or Pile it There: A Memoir
Immediately after becoming airborne, the artificial horizon slowly began indicating we were in a bank. I checked the needle in the turn and bank indicator and it indicated level flight. Lt. Col. Hendman had started following the artificial horizon ...
William E. Hubert
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The Practical Navigator: Being a Complete Epitome of ...
Description and Use of the Artificial Horizon. It frequently happens that altitudes of the sun or moon cannot be taken on shore by the usual methods, on account of not having an open horizon ; it then becomes necessary to make use of an ...
John Hamilton Moore, Joseph Foss Dessiou, 1828
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A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts
1 a taw < 'V II* . , . . . v.;i v.u Description of a portable artificial Horizon for taking Altitudes at Sea or Land, by Mr. Wright, In a Letter from the Inventor. , - . . . Sir, . •*. V . • • " • "•i-> JL Beg leave to transmit you a description and delineation Artificial ...
10
American Practical Navigator
In this case it is customary to make use of an artificial horizon formed by the surface of a vessel filled with water, mercury, Barbados tar, very clear molasses, or any other fluid of sufficient consistency not to be affected by the wind.* With this  ...
Nathaniel Bowditch, Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch, United States. Hydrographic Office, 1826

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ARTIFICIAL HORIZON»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term artificial horizon is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Story Of Nukes, Visualized
Represented as a chronological spiral growing out of the artificial horizon of a nuke's abstracted first person view, each quill of the viz ... «Co.Design, Jul 15»
2
Creating an Emergency
The pilot also said “...but we gotta go VFR, I'm having a little trouble with the… uh artificial horizon so we're going to try and make it VFR. «AVweb, Jun 15»
3
Portable AI plus g-meter – for a lower price
Like the original D1 – an instrument that impressed us when we first reviewed it a couple of years ago – the D2 is a true artificial horizon that ... «PilotWeb, Jun 15»
4
Building a Cinematography App: How Shot Assistant was Invented
“It should be useful to everyone working with a camera, simple to operate, with a huge artificial horizon for leveling a camera; it should also be ... «MovieMaker Magazine, May 15»
5
PowerUp 3.0 Turns Paper Airplanes into a Smartphone Operated UAV
The app's screen also displays the battery level, a magnetic compass, range indicator, thrust level and an artificial horizon. Powerup 3.0 planes ... «Product Design & Development, May 15»
6
Discovery of First Standing Stone Circle in Over a Century in …
It has long been suspected that henges were designed in order to create an artificial horizon line, and in Scotland, recumbent circles have been ... «Ancient Origins, May 15»
7
Pilot Getaways: Monterey Bay's midfield
You're convinced you're turning, but the artificial horizon says no. It takes discipline to ignore the sensations from your body and focus on the ... «AOPA Pilot, May 15»
8
Federal Agency Say 'No' to Reinvestigating Plane Crash That Killed …
... all of which were equipped with the conventional-type artificial horizon indicator. There is no evidence to substantiate whether the pilot had flown this aircraft in ... «EverythingLubbock.com, Apr 15»
9
High Speed VR Racing: Hands On With Radial-G
... they're also designed to give you something in the foreground to focus on at all times, with their design almost mimicking an artificial horizon. «TheSixthAxis, Apr 15»
10
Listen to Beauty Pill's cover of classic Lungfish track 'Ann The Word'
... Lungfish's 1998 album "Artificial Horizon." I wrote about "Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are" for Noisey, which is streaming the album. «Baltimore City Paper, Apr 15»

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