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
Its instrument panel, with more than 30 dials including the invaluable "artificial horizon," offered practically every known aid to navigation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most valuable service: they provide an artificial horizon; when a pilot cannot see the real horizon, he looks at the gyroscopic one, to see if he is on an even keel.
From Time Magazine Archive
His artificial horizon had been arranged but a short distance away.
From First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle by Edward Stratemeyer
