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Sensible horizon   /sˈɛnsəbəl hərˈaɪzən/   Listen
Sensible horizon

noun
1.
The line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet.  Synonyms: apparent horizon, horizon, skyline, visible horizon.






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"Sensible horizon" Quotes from Famous Books



... imaginable distance in the least imaginable time, though I see no reason to affirm, that it must be in an instant: For I know not any one Experiment or observation that does prove it. And, whereas it may be objected, That we see the Sun risen at the very instant when it is above the sensible Horizon, and that we see a Star hidden by the body of the Moon at the same instant, when the Star, the Moon, and our Eye are all in the same line; and the like Observations, or rather suppositions, may be ...
— Micrographia • Robert Hooke



Words linked to "Sensible horizon" :   horizon, line, linear perspective, perspective, skyline



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