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  2. Skyline - Wikipedia

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    Skyline of Lower Manhattan in 2021. The term "Skyline" was first used for New York City in 1896. A skyline is the outline or shape viewed near the horizon.It can be created by a city's overall structure, or by human intervention in a rural setting, or in nature that is formed where the sky meets buildings or the land.

  3. List of cities with the most skyscrapers - Wikipedia

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    Night view of the skyline of Hong Kong, which has over 500 skyscrapers. The list of cities with most skyscrapers ranks cities around the world by their number of skyscrapers. A skyscraper is defined as a continuously habitable high-rise building that has over 40 floors [1] and is taller than approximately 150 m (492 ft). [2]

  4. Skyline (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Skyline (Nigeria), a passenger airline in Nigeria; Skyline (Sweden), a defunct airline; Sky Line for Air Services, an airline; see List of airline codes (S) Skyline Casino, a casino in Henderson, Nevada; Skyline Chili, a restaurant chain based in Cincinnati, Ohio; Skyline SL-222, a Ukrainian-made helicopter; Skyline Solar, a solar power company ...

  5. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    Also amphidrome and tidal node. A geographical location where there is little or no tide, i.e. where the tidal amplitude is zero or nearly zero because the height of sea level does not change appreciably over time (meaning there is no high tide or low tide), and around which a tidal crest circulates once per tidal period (approximately every 12 hours). Tidal amplitude increases, though not ...

  6. Skyline operator - Wikipedia

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    The skyline operator is the subject of an optimization problem and computes the Pareto optimum on tuples with multiple dimensions. This operator is an extension to SQL proposed by Börzsönyi et al. [ 1 ] to filter results from a database to keep only those objects that are not worse in multiple dimensions than any other.

  7. Hypernymy and hyponymy - Wikipedia

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    While hyponyms are typically used to refer to nouns, it can also be used on other parts of speech. Like nouns, hypernyms in verbs are words that refer to a broad category of actions. For example, verbs such as stare, gaze, view and peer can also be considered hyponyms of the verb look, which is their hypernym.

  8. Metropolis - Wikipedia

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    A metropolis (/ m ɪ ˈ t r ɒ p əl ɪ s / ⓘ) [2] is a large city or conurbation which is a significant economic, political, and cultural area for a country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections, commerce, and communications.

  9. Panorama - Wikipedia

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    Panorama photograph of the inner courtyard of the Great Mosque of Kairouan, in Tunisia. A panorama (formed from Greek πᾶν "all" + ὅραμα "view") is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography, film, seismic images, or 3D modeling.