artificial horizon
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Inspired by a child's spinning top toy, Serson wondered if he could create an artificial horizon - something that would stay level, even as a ship lurched and swayed around it.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2019
The entire zone which defined the landscape of my life was now bounded by a continuous artificial horizon, formed by the raised parapets and embankments of the motorways and their access roads and interchanges.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2014
Each light bar is long enough to serve as an artificial horizon, telling the pilot if his plane is on even keel.
From Time Magazine Archive
In addition to radio, both for beacon reception and conversation, the United Air Lines plane was equipped with rate-of-climb indicator, artificial horizon and directional gyro, helpful instruments which the Navy planes lacked.
From Time Magazine Archive
A spinning top with a polished upper plane surface will provide an artificial horizon at sea, when the real horizon is obscured.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
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