Horizon (disambiguation)

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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:

Art, entertainment, and media

Films

  • Horizon (1932 film), a Soviet film
  • The Horizon (film), a 1961 Soviet film
  • Horizon (1971 film), a Hungarian film
  • The Horizon (地平線), a 1984 Japanese film by director Kaneto Shindo
  • Horizon (1989 film), an Iranian film
  • Horizon (2018 film), a Georgian film
  • Horizon: An American Saga, a series of four planned American epic Western films
    • Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1, first film
    • Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2, second film
    • Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 3, third film

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 and PlayStation 5
  • Horizons: Empire of Istaria, 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
  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a 2020 video game for the Nintendo Switch
  • Horizon, a playable character in the game Apex Legends

Music

  • Horizons Gorwelion, an annual festival aimed at promoting independent contemporary new music in Wales
  • Horizon (band), a German metal band
  • Hori7on, a South Korea-based Filipino boy band
  • Horizon Records, an American record label

Albums

  • Horizon (Culture Beat album), 1991
  • Horizon (Eddie Rabbitt album), 1980
  • Horizon (Remioromen album), 2006
  • Horizon (Sun Ra album), 1972
  • Horizon (The Carpenters album), 1975
  • Horizon (McCoy Tyner album), 1979
  • Horizon, album by BZN
  • Horizons (Kris Allen album), 2014
  • Horizons (Charles McPherson album), 1968
  • Horizons (Parkway Drive album), 2007
  • Horizons (Ira Sullivan album), 1987
  • Horizons (Starset album), 2021
  • Horizon (The Rocking Horse Winner album), 2002

Songs

  • "Horizon" (Jessica Andersson song), Melodifestivalen 2021 entry
  • "Horizon", a 2008 single by D'espairsRay
  • "Horizon", a song by The Bats from the album At the National Grid
  • "Horizon", a song by Diaura from the album Triangle
  • "Horizon", a song by Daft Punk from the 2013 album Random Access Memories
  • "Horizon", a song by Genesis Diaura from the 1972 album Foxtrot
  • "Horizons", a 1994 song by British DJ and drum and bass musician LTJ Bukem
  • "Horizon", a song by American musician Cat Power from the 2018 album Wanderer
  • "Horizons", a song by the 3rd and the Mortal from the 1996 album Painting on Glass
  • "Horizon", a song by Akina Hakamori from the 1984 album Possibility
  • "Horizon", a comedy song about the Chrysler Horizon by The Arrogant Worms from their 1995 album C'est Cheese
  • "Horizon" (Jaehyun song), a 2023 single by South Korean singer and NCT member Jaehyun

Periodicals

  • Horizon (British magazine), British magazine, 1940–1949, founded by Cyril Connolly, Stephen Spender and Peter Watson
  • Horizon (online magazine), research and innovation magazine published by the European Commission
  • Horizon (U.S. magazine), 1958–1989, originally published by American Heritage
  • Horizon Weekly, Armenian-Canadian newspaper publication
  • Horizons (magazine), research magazine of the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
  • Horizons (journal), a religious study journal
  • The Horizon: A Journal of the Color Line, U.S. magazine, 1907–1919, edited by W.E.B. Du Bois

Television and web series

  • Horizon (British TV series), a long-running British programme on BBC television showing popular science documentaries
  • Horizon (Canadian TV program), a 1963–1964 Canadian current affairs television program that aired on CBC
  • Arizona Horizon, a current events television program that debuted Arizona-based KAET in 1981
  • The Horizon (web series), a web series which premiered on YouTube; it is the most watched online series made in Australia and the most watched gay web series in the world.
  • "Horizon" (Star Trek: Enterprise), a 2003 second-season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
  • "The Horizon" (Alias), a 2005 episode
  • Pokémon Horizons: The Series, the 26th season of the Pokémon anime series

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • Horizon (novel), a 2009 fantasy novel by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Horizontes (Horizons), 1913 painting by Francisco Antonio Cano Cardona
  • Horizons (ballet), a modern dance work
  • Horizons, a sculpture by Neil Dawson

Companies and brands

Radio and television providers

  • Horizont (radio station), or Horizon Radio, a state-owned Bulgarian Radio Station
  • Heart 103.3, or Horizon Radio (UK), a UK radio station
  • Horizon TV Asia, a television provider in India

Events and organizations

Places

  • Horizons Region, official name of the Manawatu-Whanganui region in New Zealand
  • Horizon, Saskatchewan, hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Rosemont Horizon, the former name of Allstate Arena, a multipurpose arena in Rosemont, Illinois, United States
  • Horizon City, Texas , a town in Texas, United States
  • Horizons (Epcot), a former Epcot Center attraction at Walt Disney World

Schools

Science

Computing

  • Horizon effect, in artificial intelligence: the computational limit beyond which conventional game-tree search algorithms make suboptimal decisions
  • Horizons: Software Starter Pack, a 1982 software compilation for the 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
  • VMware Horizon, a commercial desktop-virtualisation product released in 2014 (formerly called 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, 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
  • Carnival Horizon, 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
  • MV Horizon, a cruise ship operated by Pullmantur Cruises

Other uses

  • Fusion of horizons, understanding that results from the dynamic process of integrating the 'Other' and the familiar
  • Project Horizon, a study to determine the feasibility of the construction of a military base on the moon conducted in 1959

See also

Search for "horizon" on Wikipedia.
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  • All pages with titles beginning with horizon
  • Bring Me the Horizon, a British rock band
  • Mirage, a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays bend to produce a displaced image of distant objects
  • New Horizons (disambiguation)
  • New Horizon (disambiguation)
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