skyline
IPA: skˈaɪɫaɪn
noun
- The line that seems to be the boundary of the sky and the ground; the horizon.
- The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky.
- A path of movement, especially military movement, producing a silhouette above terrain features visible from the location of likely observers.
- (journalism) A panel on the front page of a newspaper outlining some of the features to be found inside.
- (Cincinnati) food, often Cincinnati chili, purchased from a Skyline Chili restaurant.
- (databases) Short for skyline operator. [(databases) A proposed operator, for use in database queries, that filters out results that are worse than others according to multiple criteria.]
verb
- To outline something against the sky.
- (databases, transitive) To filter by means of the skyline operator.
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