Disk
Disk noun - Something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate.
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Synonyms for Disk
Horizon and disk are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Horizon" instead a noun "Disk".
Nearby Words: diskette, disking, disked, diskless
Horizon
Horizon noun - The line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet.
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Synonyms for Horizon
Nearby Word: Horizonte
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Scientists even called this effect "spaghettification", although this only applies to the event horizon inside the black hole, not the orbiting accretion disk around it.
Source: Gravity Sucks -
The townspeople look on as his figure, silhouetted against the orange disk, disappears into the horizon.
Source: Riding into the Sunset - Used in Green Lantern: The Animated Series where Hal Pilots a ship Into a pinhole (miniature black hole), making it "skip" over the accretion disk like a stone over water which somehow lets the ship shoot out of the pinhole's event horizon towards safety.
Source: Spaceship Slingshot Stunt
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