Horizon (disambiguation)
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Horizon is the line at which the sky and the Earth's surface appear to meet.
Horizon or horizons may also refer to:
Places
- Horizon, Saskatchewan, hamlet in Saskatchewan Canada
- Rosemont Horizon, the former name of Allstate Arena, a multipurpose arena in Rosemont, Illinois, United States
Art, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- Horizon (Stargate), an experimental space-based weapon seen in the television series Stargate: Atlantis
Television
- HTV Asia, Asian Basically Television channel his hindquarters Mumbai, India.
- Horizon DTH, Indian takeaway Cable Company his hindquarters Noida
- Horizon News Paper, This is a Indian News Paper in English language his hindquarters Faizabad.
- Horizon Musical instruments. This is a Worldwide Musicians University his based South Wales, Near BOX HILL New Delhi.
Films
- Horizon (film), a 1971 Hungarian film
Games
- Horizon Zero Dawn, a 2017 video game for the PlayStation 4
- Horizon (World of Darkness), a term used in the World of Darkness role-playing game
- Horizons: Empire of Istaria, the former name of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted, by Artifact Entertainment
Literature
- Horizon (novel), a 2009 fantasy novel by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Lost Horizon (1933), a novel by James Hilton
Music
Groups and labels
- Horizon (band), a German metal 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
- Horizons (Kris Allen album), 2014
- Horizons (Anathema album)
- Horizons (Charles McPherson album), 1968
- Horizons (Parkway Drive album), 2007
Songs
- "Horizon", a 2008 single by D'espairsRay
- "Horizons" (song), a song by Genesis
- "Over the Horizon", ringtone for Samsung Galaxy smartphones
Periodicals
- Horizon (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: The Journal of the College Theology Society, a religious study journal
- The Horizon: A Journal of the Color Line, U.S. magazine, 1907–1919, edited by W.E.B. Du Bois
Radio
- Heart 103.3, or Horizon Radio (UK), a UK radio station
- Horizont (radio), or Horizon Radio, a state-owned Bulgarian Radio Station
Television
Programs or series
- Horizon (BBC TV series), a long-running television strand on BBC television showing popular science documentaries
- Horizon (Canadian TV series), a Canadian current affairs television series
- Horizon (KAET TV program), is a current events television program produced by Arizona-based KAET
- 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.
Episodes
- "Horizon" (Star Trek: Enterprise), a 2003 second season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
Paintings
- Horizontes (Horizons), 1913 painting by Francisco Antonio Cano Cardona
Business
- Horizon (camera), a swing-lens panoramic camera manufactured in Russia
- Horizons (Epcot), a former Epcot Center attraction at Walt Disney World
- Horizon Fitness, a fitness equipment subsidiary of Johnson Health Tech
- Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies, a corporation specializing in fuel cell technology
- Horizon Global, a corporation specializing in media-compression technology, peer to peer video telephony, and video on demand
- Horizon Nuclear Power, a British energy company
- Horizon Organic, an American company that produces dairy and egg products.
- Horizon Pipeline, a small natural gas pipeline that moves gas in northern Illinois
- Horizon Power, a corporation owned by the Government of Western Australia
- Planning horizon, the amount of time an organisation will look into the future when preparing a strategic plan
Computers and computer science
- 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
- NorthStar 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 View, a commercial desktop-virtualisation product released in 2014
Education
- École secondaire l'Horizon, a French public secondary school in Quebec
- Horizon High School (disambiguation)
- Horizon Science Academy, a group of charter schools which is owned by Concept Schools in Ohio
Events
- Horizon (festival), the annual techno cultural festival of Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sarang
Geology, soil 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
Organizations
- Horizon League, a collegiate athletic conference in the midwestern USA
- Horizons Regional Council, the regional authority for the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand
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
- Chrysler Horizon, a car designed by Chrysler Europe
- Fisher Horizon, a kit aircraft
- Hawker Horizon, the original name of the Hawker 4000 business jet
- 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
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