artificial horizon

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Inspired by a child's spinning top toy, Serson wondered if he could create an artificial horizon - something that would stay level, even as a ship lurched and swayed around it.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2019

The entire zone which defined the landscape of my life was now bounded by a continuous artificial horizon, formed by the raised parapets and embankments of the motorways and their access roads and interchanges.

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2014

All the dials and gauges of a real airplane cockpit are displayed on the bottom half of the screen, including altimeter, artificial horizon, airspeed indicator and two compasses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each light bar is long enough to serve as an artificial horizon, telling the pilot if his plane is on even keel.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sun is too vertical for taking it with my sextant and artificial horizon.

From Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills by Landsborough, William