horizonとは

意味・読み方・使い方

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.

   Synonyms: skysill, skyline

   A tall building was visible on the horizon.

2. (figuratively) 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 primordial 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, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
6. Any level line or surface.
7. (chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.

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): /hoˈriz.zoːn/, [hɔˈrɪz.zoːn̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈrid.d͡zon/, [ɔˈrid.d͡zɔn]

名詞

horizōn m (genitive horizontis); third declension

1. horizon

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Third-declension noun.

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, Hachette