different between azimuth vs nadir

English

Etymology

From Old French *azimut (modern French azimut), from Arabic ??????????? pl (as-sum?t, “the directions”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æz?m??/
• Hyphenation: azi?muth

Noun

azimuth (plural azimuths)

1. An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object.

2. The quadrant of an azimuth circle.

Derived terms

• altazimuth
• azimuthal
• azimuthally
• backazimuth / back azimuth

Related terms

• nadir
• zenith

Translations

Further reading

• azimuth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin nadir, from Arabic ?????? ????????? (na??r as-samt), composed of ??????? (na??r, “counterpart, corresponding to”) and ????????? (as-samt, “the zenith”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ne?.d??(?)/, /?næ.d??(?)/, /?ne?.d?(?)/, /ne??d??(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ne?.d??/, /?ne?.d??/, /ne??d??/

Noun

nadir (plural nadirs)

1. The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place of observation.

   Antonym: zenith
2. (figuratively) The lowest point; time of greatest depression.

   Synonyms: lowest ebb, slough of despond, trough, bathos

   Antonyms: height, peak

   • 1837, Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries:

   • 1950, Elizabeth Janeway, in Helen Hull (editor), The Writer’s Book:

3. (astronomy) The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.

   Synonym: down

4. (beekeeping, archaic) An empty box added beneath a full one in a beehive to give the colony more room to expand or store honey.

   Antonyms: duplet, super

Related terms

• azimuth, zenith - (both from ?????????? (as-samtu)).

Translations

Verb

nadir (third-person singular simple present nadirs, present participle nadiring, simple past and past participle nadired)

1. (transitive, beekeeping) To extend (a beehive) by adding an empty box at the base.

References

• 1860, Henry Taylor, The Beekeepers Manual, page 24.

Further reading

• Nadir (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Darin, Drain, Drina, Indra, Nardi, Ndari, Radin, dinar, drain, ranid

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (n?dir).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [n???dir]
• Hyphenation: na?dir

Adjective

nadir (comparative daha nadir, superlative ?n nadir)

1. rare

French

Etymology

As for the English word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.di?/

Noun

nadir m (plural nadirs)

1. (astronomy) nadir

Antonyms

• zénith

Further reading

• “nadir” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• radin

Italian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin nadir, from Arabic ?????? ????????? (na??r as-samt), composed of ??????? (na??r, “counterpart, corresponding to”) and ????????? (as-samt, “the zenith”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?dir/

Noun

nadir m

1. (astronomy) nadir

   Antonym: zenit

Anagrams

• nardi

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /na?d??i(?)/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /n??ði?/

Noun

nadir m (plural nadires)

1. nadir (point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where the observer stands)
2. (figuratively) nadir (the lowest point)

Romanian

Etymology

From French nadir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?dir/

Noun

nadir n (uncountable)

1. nadir

Declension

Further reading

• nadir in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?di?/, [na?ð?i?]

Noun

nadir m (plural nadires)

1. nadir (point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where the observer stands)

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (n?dir)

Adjective

nadir (comparative daha nadir, superlative en nadir)

1. rare

Synonyms

• ender