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Definitions

artificial horizon

[ahr-tuh-fish-uhl huh-rahy-zuhn] / ˈɑr tə fɪʃ əl həˈraɪ zən /

NOUN

flight indicator

Synonyms

WEAK

attitude gyro attitude indicator gyro horizon

Example Sentences

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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

Its instrument panel, with more than 30 dials including the invaluable "artificial horizon," offered practically every known aid to navigation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most valuable service: they provide an artificial horizon; when a pilot cannot see the real horizon, he looks at the gyroscopic one, to see if he is on an even keel.

From Time Magazine Archive

But what about the image of the sun upon the artificial horizon?

From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.