horizon

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /həˈɹaɪ.zən/    美 /həˈɹaɪ.zən/|/həˈɹɑe.zən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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 whole sweep of the horizon.
  2. The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold. figuratively
    — Some students take a gap year after finishing high school to broaden their horizons.
  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.
  4. A specific layer of soil, or stratum
  5. A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period. US
  6. Any level line or surface.
  7. The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.

词形变化

horizons plural

词汇关系

衍生词
absolute horizon A-horizon antihorizon apparent horizon archaeological horizon archeological horizon artificial horizon Cauchy horizon circumhorizon comoving horizon cosmic event horizon cosmic light horizon cosmological event horizon cosmological horizon dip of the horizon dynamical horizon event horizon Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin horizon GZK horizon horizonal horizon effect horizon glass horizonless horizon problem horizonward horizonwards Hubble horizon isolated horizon Killing horizon marker horizon moral event horizon on the horizon particle horizon quicksilver horizon radar horizon rational horizon split horizon subhorizon superhorizon time horizon unhorizoned
相关词
horizontal aorist vertical

词源

Inherited from Middle English orisonte, orisoun, from Middle French horizon, horizonte, from Old French orisonte, orison, via Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).
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