horizon
/həˈɹaɪ.zən/ nom B1En français : horizon, ligne d'horizon
- 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 whole sweep of the horizon.· The sky and sea seem to merge at the horizon.
- 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.· With clinical researchers hard at work, a new treatment is on the horizon.
- The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
- A specific layer of soil, or stratum
- A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
- Any level line or surface.
- The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.
Pluriel horizons
Dans la bibliothèque
He listened for any sound that might be audible, and every time that he rose to the top of a wave he scanned the horizon, and strove to penetrate the darkness.
There was the news of a revolution, of a possible war, and of an impending change of government; but these did not come within the horizon of my companion.
A part of the good abbé’s words, however, were wholly incomprehensible to him; but, like the aurora which guides the navigator in northern latitudes, opened new vistas to the inquiring mind of the listener, and gave fantastic glimpses of new horizons, enabling him justly to estimate the delight an intellectual mind would have in following one so richly gifted as Faria along the heights of truth, where he was so much at home.
There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.
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