Horizon (disambiguation)

Horizon is the line at which the sky and the Earth's surface appear to meet.

Horizon or horizons may also refer to:

Business

• Horizon Global, a corporation specializing in media-compression technology, peer to peer video telephony, and video on demand
• Horizon Global Electronics, an electronics company
• Horizon Pipeline, a small natural gas pipeline that moves gas in northern Illinois
• Horizon Power, a corporation owned by the Government of Western Australia
• Horizon Realty Group, a Chicago real estate management company widely known for suing its tenant for alleged defamation via Twitter in Horizon Group v. Bonnen
• Horizon Software, a company specializing in financial software for financial institutions
• Planning horizon, the amount of time an organisation will look into the future when preparing a strategic plan

Computer science

• Horizon effect, in Artificial intelligence, the computational limit beyond which conventional game tree search algorithms make suboptimal decisions
• 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

Education

• Horizon High School (disambiguation), a public high school open to all students for grades 9-12
• Horizon Science Academy, a group of charter schools which is owned by Concept Schools in Ohio
• École secondaire l'Horizon, a French public secondary school in Quebec

Geology, soil science and archeology

• Soil horizon, a specific and distinctive layer in a land area
• Archaeological horizon, a specific and distinctive period of artifacts in an archeological site

Music

• ESP Horizon, a guitar model distributed by ESP
• Horizon Records, an American record label
• Horizon (band), a German Metal band
• Horizon (Culture Beat album) (1991)
• Horizon (Eddie Rabbitt album) (1980)
• Horizon (Remioromen album) (2006)
• Horizon (Carpenters album) (1975)
• "Horizon" (song) (2008), a single of the Japanese band D'espairsRay
• Horizons (Parkway Drive album) (2007), an album by Parkway Drive
• "Horizons", a song by Genesis from the album Foxtrot (1972)
• "Horizon", track from RuneScape game

Periodicals

• Horizon (magazine), British magazine, 1940–1949, founded by Cyril Connolly, Stephen Spender and Peter Watson
• Horizon (U.S. magazine), U.S. magazine, 1958–1989, originally published by American Heritage
• Horizon Weekly, Armenian-Canadian newspaper publication
• The Horizon: A Journal of the Color Line, U. S. magazine, 1907–1919, edited by W. E. B. Du Bois

Physics

• 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
• Killing horizon, a null surface on which there is a Killing vector field

Radio

• Heart 103.3, or Horizon Radio (UK), a UK radio station
• Horizont (radio), a state-owned Bulgarian Radio Station
• Radio horizon, the locus of points in telecommunication at which direct rays from an antenna are tangential to the surface of the Earth

Spacecraft

• New Horizons, the first spacecraft expected to flyby and study the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons.

Television

• Horizon (BBC TV series), a long-running television strand on BBC television showing popular science documentaries
• Horizon (KAET TV program), is a current events television program produced by Arizona-based KAET
• "Horizon" (Enterprise episode), a second season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
• Horizon (Stargate), an experimental space-based weapon seen in the television series Stargate: Atlantis
• Horizons (TV series), a US television program aimed at Greeks abroad
• Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, the anime adaptation of the same light novel series written by Minoru Kawakami

Transportation

• 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
• Horizon (railcar), an Amtrak passenger car used mostly in the Midwest

Other

• Horizon, Saskatchewan, hamlet in Saskatchewan Canada.
• Horizon (camera), a swing-lens panoramic camera manufactured in Russia
• Horizon (film), a 1971 Hungarian film
• Horizon (World of Darkness), a term used in the World of Darkness role-playing game
• Horizon class frigate, a Franco-Italian design.
• Horizon League, a collegiate athletic conference in the midwestern USA
• Horizons (Epcot attraction), a former Epcot Center attraction at Walt Disney World
• Horizons: Empire of Istaria, the former name of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted by Artifact Entertainment
• Horizons: Software Starter Pack, an early software compilation for the ZX Spectrum
• Project Horizon, a study to determine the feasibility of the construction of a military base on the moon conducted in 1959
• Fusion of horizons, understanding that results from the dynamic process of integrating the 'Other' and the familiar. See: Gadamer

See also

• Lost Horizon