skyline

UK/ˈskaɪˌlaɪn/US/ˈskaɪˌlaɪn/

nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,708 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: skylines

The skyline is the shape a city's towers cut against the sky. The city skyline, dominate the skyline, a famous skyline.

It is the outline seen from a distance, and a building that changes it is described as changing the skyline — which is why tall buildings attract objections about far more than their footprint. The word also means the horizon itself, particularly in American use. Note that a protected view is a legal restriction on what may be built into a skyline.

Definitions of skyline

1nounskylineThe shape a city's buildings cut against the sky.B2+
“From the ferry, we watched the Manhattan skyline light up as night fell.”

skyline is an outline against the sky.

Where it comes from

From sky + line.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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A skyline is the outline or shape viewed near the horizon.
Skyline
City skylines serve as a pseudo-fingerprint as no two skylines are alike.
Skyline
Boston's skyline is shaped by the roughly 2.5 mile unofficial High Spine urban corridor, bypassing surrounding low-rise residential areas like Beacon Hill and the North End.
List of tallest buildings in Boston
In column-oriented skyline storage, only the entries from the first nonzero entry to the last nonzero entry in each column are stored.
Skyline matrix
There is also row oriented skyline storage, and, for symmetric matrices, only one triangle is usually stored.
Skyline matrix

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