horizonとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /həˈɹaɪzən/

名詞

horizon (複数形 horizons)

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

   A tall building was visible on the horizon.

2. The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest.

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

3. The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
   • 2003, Miguel de Beistegui, Thinking with Heidegger: Displacements, →ISBN, page 157:

     Only mortality, this irreducible and primoridal horizon, that very horizon which, in Being and Time, Heidegger so compellingly revealed as the unsurpassable and defining possibility, remains.

4. (geology) A specific layer of soil or strata
5. (archaeology, US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.

同意語

• (line separating Earth かつ sky): skysill, skyline

派生語

• archaeological horizon
• artificial horizon
• event horizon
• radar horizon

関連する語

• horizontal

参考

• vertical

Further reading

• horizon on Wikipedia.

Latin

語源

From Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈho.ri.zoːn/, [ˈhɔ.rɪ.zoːn]

名詞

horizōn m (genitive horizontos または horizontis); third

1. horizon

Inflection

Third declension, Greek type, nominative singular in -ōn. Alternative genitive singular and plural and accusative plural may be attested or may be reconstructed by lexicographers due to horizōn having been imported from the Ancient Greek masculine present active participle.

派生した語

参照

• horizon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• horizon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary], Hachette