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Artificial Horizon
1. A gyro-operated flight instrument that shows the pitching
and banking attitudes of an aircraft or spacecraft with respect
to a reference line horizon, within limited degrees of movement,
by means of the relative position of lines or marks on the face
of the instrument representing the aircraft and the
horizon.
See
attitude gyro.
2. A device, such as a spirit level, pendulum, etc., that
establishes a horizontal reference in a navigation instrument.
References
This article is based on NASA's Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use
