apparent horizon

1. 1.

   the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet

   Synonymshorizonvisible horizonsensible horizonskyline

   Broaderline

   Part ofperspective

Questions about apparent horizon

What does apparent horizon mean?

apparent horizon means "the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet".

What is another word for apparent horizon?

Close synonyms include horizon, visible horizon, sensible horizon, skyline. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is apparent horizon a common word?

apparent horizon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.