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artificial horizon

noun as in flight indicator

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Example Sentences

I had with me an admirable Hadleys sextant, and an artificial horizon, and I corrected the mean refraction of the suns rays.

He fixed, by means of an artificial horizon, its latitude to be 341 09 minutes S nine miles to the southward of Botany Bay.

The sextant and artificial horizon, thermometer, and compasses were carried apart.

According to an observation with an artificial horizon on land.

I repeat, however, that I know not how far these methods may go towards obtaining an artificial horizon, for astronomical uses.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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