Word Finder - horizons

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The visible horizontal line or point (in all directions) that appears to connect the Earth to the sky.

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A tall building was visible on the horizon.

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• skyline
• skysill

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The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold.

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Some students take a gap year after finishing high school to broaden their horizons.

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The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.

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A specific layer of soil or strata

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A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.

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Any level line or surface.

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The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.

Life is more exciting when one treads away from the everyday path, seeking bold new horizons.

The morning was sunny with smoke haze low on the horizons.

The igneous rocks occur at several geological horizons, but the great volcanic eruptions did not begin until the Tertiary period.

Hatcher, demonstrate the Pleistocene nature of the deposits, by which is not necessarily meant older Quaternary, for their horizons have not been differentiated and correlated in South America.

Phosphatic nodules and concretions, with phosphatized fossils and their casts, occur at various geological horizons in Great Britain.

Bach's sonatas; then the medium itself began to suggest wider horizons and new possibilities of treatment; his position at Eisenstadt enabled him to experiment without reserve; his genius, essentially symphonic in character, found its true outlet in the opportunities of pure musical structure.

Beginning in 1793 he boldly advocated evolution, and further elaborated five great principles--namely, the method of comparison of extinct and existing forms, the broad sequence of formations and succession of epochs, the correlation of geological horizons by means of fossils, the climatic or environmental changes as influencing the development of species, the inheritance of the bodily modifications caused by change of habit and habitat.

Deperet points also that we owe to Cuvier the first clear expression of the idea of the increasing organic perfection of all forms of life from the lower to the higher horizons, and that, while he believed that extinctions were due to sudden revolutions on the surface of the earth, he also set forth the pregnant ideas that the renewals of animal life were by migration from other regions unknown, and that these migrations were favoured by alternate elevations and depressions which formed various land routes between great continents and islands.

Melchior Neumayr, the great Austrian palaeontologist, especially extended the philosophic foundations of modern invertebrate palaeontology, and traced a number of continuous genetic series (formenreihe) in successive horizons.

It is certainly a very striking fact that wherever we have been able to trace genetic series, either of invertebrates or vertebrates, in closely sequent geological horizons, or life zones, we find strong proof of evolution through extremely gradual mutation simultaneously affecting many parts of each organism, as set forth above.

This is not due to environmental conditions solely, because senescent branches of normal progressive groups are found in all geologic horizons, beginning, for gastropods, in the Lower Cambrian.

The zinc and lead of the Joplin district of Missouri are in the limestone of this system, and the corresponding limestone in some parts of Colorado, as at Leadville, is one of the horizons of rich ore.

For some he was identical with Horus, and then phil was falcon-headed and was called Hor-akhti, the Horus of of t horizons.

The Middle Oolite consists mostly of sandstones with bands of shale and limestones, and includes fossils which indicate the English horizons from the Kellaways Rock up to the Coral Rag.

The Ionian islands consist almost entirely of Cretaceous and Tertiary beds, but in Corfu Jurassic deposits belonging to various horizons have also been found.

The plant beds occur at several horizons, and among the remains which have been found in them are several forms which occur also in the Gondwana beds of India.

Undoubted Jurassic fossils, belonging to several horizons, have been described from west Borneo and Sarawak.

The Russian Altai is composed mainly of mica and chlorite schists and slates, together with beds of limestone, and in the higher horizons Devonian and Carboniferous fossils occur in many places.

Some coals occur in the Millstone Grit horizons.

Other characters, however, prove that the Cordaiteae were remote from that family, and the name Araucarioxylon is best Limited to wood from later horizons, where a near relationship to Araucarieae is more probable.'

The class Cordaitales extends back to the Devonian, and it must be borne in mind that our knowledge of their fructifications is practically limited to representatives from the latest Palaeozoic horizons.

Any detailed account of the horizons of Carboniferous plants would carry us much too far.

Fossil wood, described under the name Cupressinoxylon, has been recorded from several Mesozoic horizons in Europe and elsewhere, but this term has been employed in a wide sense as a designation for a type of structure met with not only in the Cupressineae, but in members of other families of Coniferae.

His experience and knowledge of the global aerospace and defense markets will be a major benefit to companies looking to expand their horizons.

It has been speculated that they provided artificial horizons for the observation of the moon and other astronomical bodies.

It includes outcrops of numerous coal seams, and several mudstone horizons yielding non-marine bivalves.

We aim to teach beyond the prescribed curriculum thereby broadening the intellectual horizons of our pupils.

On deeper horizons noise sources are displaced under a chain of cinder cones by wide strip.

Through studying them humans have continually enlarged their horizons and explored the cosmos.

With each passing day human intelligence enlarges the horizons of the possible and achieves prodigious feats.

Expanding students ' horizons - 17 Nov 2005 English teaching is often too formulaic, says William Glover.

The final year completes the academic study - there are optional units to broaden the horizons.

Migrants had also widened the horizons of domestic workers by helping them understand more about other cultures.

Although the hole did not intersect significant economic mineralization it did intersect three horizons of interest.

For all their technical advances, the new films have not really expanded the horizons of the animated genre very far at all.

Upper Basalt Formation Comprise a crudely-bedded succession of lava flows, columnar jointed lava flows, ash-falls and red-weathered horizons (or boles ).

This is vital for a world-class regional university, with world-wide horizons, using all our talents to the full.

Brahman goes farther than conception can go and stretches farther still beyond the farthest horizons.

All four trenches revealed deep, bleached or leached soil horizons below the modern topsoil.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.

Atlantic Horizons - Inhale the aroma of spices in a bustling Moroccan souk.

This is one of the youngest horizons to yield trilobites at surface exposures in Britain.

Sue Milburn's work engaged the viewer with uncluttered abstracted horizons, drawing them into the paintings.

Beneath the designer gear my heart yearned for vast horizons, endless gallops, wildness and wilderness.

Not only could he no longer think the thoughts that had first come to him as he lay gazing at the sky on the field of Austerlitz and had later enlarged upon with Pierre, and which had filled his solitude at Bogucharovo and then in Switzerland and Rome, but he even dreaded to recall them and the bright and boundless horizons they had revealed.

Iron compounds, in various states of oxidation and reduction (hydration) are major coloring agents of subsoil horizons.

The majority of tephra horizons within a sequence can be distinguished on the basis of major or trace element chemistry.

Sue Milburn 's work engaged the viewer with uncluttered abstracted horizons, drawing them into the paintings.

The reason for the explosion is that the managers of these funds have broadened their horizons and are seeking new markets and creating new strategies.

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