artificial horizon in English
noun
1
a gyroscopic instrument or a fluid surface, typically one of mercury, used to provide a horizontal reference plane for navigational measurement.
Vertical bars mark the sides of the hangar and the ship's mast, and a further improvement comes in the form of a gyro-stabilised horizontal bar, which gives the pilot an artificial horizon to work with.
noun
gyro horizon
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1. Electronic triple-axis gyro with accurate attitude control and artificial horizon.
2. The company outfitted him with a sextant, an artificial horizon, compass, thermometers, watches, Nautical Almanacs, and all the instruments and supplies necessary to carry out his surveying.
3. It still has to be analysed if these birds would refer to the azimuth and altitude of their stellar orientation pattern with the natural or an artificial horizon as the primitive circle.