horizon
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
Types & categories
- line hypernym
Parts & wholes
- linear perspective part holonym
Sense 2 noun
the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated
It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge
Types & categories
- scope hypernym
Sense 3 noun
a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land
Types & categories
- stratum hypernym
- soil horizon hyponym
- geological horizon hyponym
Parts & wholes
- profile part holonym
Sense 4 noun
the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth
Types & categories
- great circle hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | linear perspective |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | line |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | scope |
| 3 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | profile |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | stratum |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | soil horizon |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | geological horizon |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | great circle |