zenith
IPA: zˈinʌθ
noun
- (astronomy) The point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir.
- (astronomy) The highest point in the sky reached by a celestial body.
- (by extension) Highest point or state; peak.
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Examples of "zenith" in Sentences
- He is the zenith of an awesomeness parabola.
- His rule marked the zenith of the Hafsid kingdom.
- It was the zenith of the brotherhood relationship.
- The direction opposite of the nadir is the zenith.
- Arcturus is the zenith star of the Hawaiian Islands.
- The zenith of the academy was the years of 1616 1630.
- Therefore, it passes through the zenith and the nadir.
- Why isn't the map at the top not the map of the zenith
- Balta was the northernmost station of the zenith sector.
- By the middle of the 17th century the Carmelites had reached their zenith.
- That's lazy writing at its zenith, which is reason #5: Conservatives think we're stupid and won't notice.
- The whole of the western sky right up to the zenith was a finely shaded study in brilliant orange and yellow.
- Your actual position on the earth will be projected in a point called your zenith, i.e., the point directly overhead.
- In the zenith was a white lustre which obliterated distinction of form as much as did the cloudy obscurity at the end of the room.
- By 1946, Still had developed his signature style, and the next two galleries show this work, what Mr. Sobel calls the zenith of his career.
- The sky from the earth to the zenith was a vast expanse of illuminated smoke, and the black landscape round about was cut by rivulets of molten lava rolling on and on like restless streams of quicksilver.
- But the only zones of the globe in which the moon passes the zenith, that is, the point directly over the head of the spectator, are of necessity comprised between the twenty-eighth parallels and the equator.
- Night withdrew to the eastern edges of the heavens; the sky to the zenith was a glistening orange, blurred with shadowy up-rollings of smoke, along the city's crest the torn flame ribbons playing like northern lights.
- Some day for us shall come into that blank sky-horizon which is called the zenith, a stranger, a man or a god, perhaps not like ourselves, yet having affinities with ourselves, and correlating ourselves to some family of men or gods of which we are all lost children.
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