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artificial horizon

a gyroscopic instrument on an aircraft for indicating the true horizon and the position of the craft with reference to it; flight indicator

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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