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- zenith
- The highest point in the sky reached by a celestial body
in the middle of the day, when the sun was in the zenith, the violence of the heat was too great to stir out.
- {n} a point in the heavens directly overhead
- the culminating-point of prosperity, influence, or greatness
- hence, figuratively, the point of culmination; the greatest height; the height of success or prosperity
- the point of the celestial sphere directly overhead, 90 degrees above the horizon, for any point on the earth It is the point where a plumb line extended upward would intersect the celestial sphere
- Opposite of nadir, the point directly above in the sky
- The point on the celestial sphere that is directly overhead, i e the projection onto the celestial sphere of the local vertical
- the point directly overhead
- The zenith is the direction that is straight up When the Sun is in the zenith, then shadows are commonly the shortest
- The observer's overhead point (altitude 90º) Zodiac A belt stretching round the sky, 8º to either side of the ecliptic, in which the Sun, Moon and principal planets are to be found at any time (Pluto is the only planet which can leave the Zodiac, though many asteroids do so )
- n The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though from this view of the matter there was once a considerably dissent among the learned, some holding that the posture of the body was immaterial These were called Horizontalists, their opponents, Verticalists The Horizontalist heresy was finally extinguished by Xanobus, the philosopher-king of Abara, a zealous Verticalist Entering an assembly of philosophers who were debating the matter, he cast a severed human head at the feet of his opponents and asked them to determine its zenith, explaining that its body was hanging by the heels outside Observing that it was the head of their leader, the Horizontalists hastened to profess themselves converted to whatever opinion the Crown might be pleased to hold, and Horizontalism took its place among fides defuncti
- The point in the sky directly above the observer The highest point
- samt ar-ra's = [Arabic] way over your head The zenith is the direction that is straight up When the Sun is in the zenith, then shadows are commonly the shortest
- The zenith is the point in the sky directly overhead from your location Directly opposite the zenith, below your feet, is the "nadir"
- The point in the sky directly overhead
- An imaginary point located directly overhead of the observer
- Zenith is the point on the celestial sphere vertically above a given position or observer
- The tilt of the tape head in the direction perpendicular to the tape travel
- The point in the sky directly above your head
- The imaginary point directly above an observer on Earth (opposite of nadir) (Back To Top)