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
Its instrument panel, with more than 30 dials including the invaluable "artificial horizon," offered practically every known aid to navigation.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sextant and artificial horizon, lying on the ground, escaped destruction, and the dipping-needle had fortunately been taken on board.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert
