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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:

Horizon Global, a corporation specializing in media-compression technology, peer to peer video telephony, and video on demand
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

Horizon of connectivity, the boundary in most client-server architectures that limits access to server-based resources
NorthStar Horizon, an 8-bit computer system based on the ZiLOG Z80A microprocessor
Split horizon, one of the methods in computer networks used to prevent routing loops

Horizon High School, 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

Horizon refers to a specified layer within rock, sediment or soil; see also stratum and bed.

Horizon, British magazine, 1940-1949, founded by Cyril Connolly, Stephen Spender and Peter Watson
Horizon, U.S. magazine, 1958-1989, originally published by American Heritage
Horizon Weekly, Armenian-Canadian newspaper publication

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
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
Particle horizon, the maximum distance from which particles can have travelled to an observer in the age of the universe

Horizon Radio (UK), the pop-format Independent Local Radio station for Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire
Horizon 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

New Horizons, the first spacecraft expected to flyby and study the ex-planet Pluto.

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

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
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 Fleet, an Amtrak passenger car used mostly in the Midwest

Horizon (camera), a swing-lens panoramic camera manufactured in Russia
Horizon (World of Darkness), a term used in the old 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, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed 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