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:

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

See also

• "Over the Rainbow"
• Mirage