Word Finder - zenith

definition

The point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir.

definition

The highest point in the sky reached by a celestial body.

definition

(by extension) Highest point or state; peak.

example

Winning the continental championship was the zenith of my career.

synonyms

• acme
• apogee
• culmination
• pinnacle

These years mark the zenith of Athenian greatness.

The sun was well past its zenith and headed toward the trees on the west side of the cabin.

Sikhism attained its zenith under the military genius of Ranjit Singh.

The exhibitions in the arena were perhaps at their zenith during his tenure of power.

The power of the archdeacon reached its zenith at the outset of the 1 3th century.

Anne Boleyn had now reached the zenith of her hopes.

The reign of Suleiman the Magnificent marked the zenith of the Ottoman power.

The pilgrimage, however, attained its zenith under Islam.

The last pope to be canonized, his pontificate marks the zenith of the Catholic reformation.

At the conference of Calais in 1521 English influence reached its zenith; but the alliance with Charles destroyed the balance on which that influence depended.

It was about this time that Mer y reached the zenith of her glory.

The present article contains a description of the mounting of the various forms of the so-called zenith telescope.

This was the zenith of their success, and it was unfortunate for them that they declined the various offers of peace which Sparta made.

This moment marks the zenith of the Ptolemaic power.

This was the zenith of his political career.

After March it began to pass northwards, a motion quite apparent by the middle of April; in June it passed at the same distance from the zenith as it did in December; and in September it passed through its most northerly position, the extreme range from north to south, i.e.

The normal polarization at the zenith, as dependent upon the position of the sun, was the foundation of Sir C. Wheatstone's polar clock.

At the very time of Nasir's visit to Cairo, the power of the Egyptian Fatimites was in its zenith; Syria, the Hejaz, Africa, and Sicily obeyed Mostansir's sway, and the utmost order, security and prosperity reigned in Egypt.

Davy's reputation was now at its zenith.

His Catholic boss Gerry has never managed this zenith of achievement.

In 1172 it became a free imperial city and it attained the zenith of its prosperity under the.

From the zenith to the realm of the departed she is the " queen of all gods and goddesses."

This probably represents the zenith of its prosperity.

The Conservative Party and Margaret Thatcher appeared to be at a zenith of success and power, yet he despaired of our future.

For over 90 years, the Zenith brand has regularly treated the consumer public to a range of innovations.

Among Zenith's earliest inventions was the world's first portable radio in 1924, the first push-button tuning option in 1927 and the first wireless remote control.

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The prestige of her past history had now perhaps attained its zenith.

The first years of the land war brought the Athenian empire to its zenith.

But the accession of larger resources due to the union between Catalonia and Aragon in 1149, brought the city to the zenith of its fame and wealth.

Rays often alter suddenly in length, seeming to stretch down towards the horizon or mount towards the zenith.

At Tasiusak the auroral curtain after reaching the zenith usually retired in the direction from which it had come.

In some cases changes of intensity take place round the auroral zenith, simulating the effect that would be produced by a cyclonic rotation of luminous matter.

Under these circumstances, green is also sometimes visible, especially towards the zenith.

The long arm f serves to clamp the telescope in zenith distance and to communicate slow motion in zenith distance when so clamped.

In practice the vertical circle is adjusted once for all, so that when the levels k and l are in the centre of their run, the verniers read true zenith distances.

A pair of stars of known declination are selected such that their zenith distances, when on the meridian, are nearly equal and opposite, and whose right ascensions differ by five or ten minutes of time.

If between the north and south observation there is a change in the level readings of the levels k and 1, this indicates a change in the zenith distance of the axis of the telescope.

The value of "one revolution of the screw in seconds of arc" can be determined either by observing at transit the difference of zenith distance of two stars of known declination in terms of the micrometer screw, the instrument remaining at rest between their transits; or by measuring at known instants in terms of the screw, the change of zenith distance of a standard star of small polar distance near the time of its greatest elongation.

On this principle the use of the level is abolished, the telescope is mounted on a metallic float, and it is assumed that, in course of the rotation of this float, the zenith distance of the axis of the telescope will remain undisturbed, that is, of course, after the undulations, induced by the disturbance of the mercury, have ceased.

The interval between the true trails, measured at right angles to the direction of the trails, obviously corresponds to the difference of zenith distance of the two stars.

Mokhtar was now at the zenith of power, but Ibn Zobair, determined to get rid at all costs of so dangerous an enemy, named his brother Mus`ab governor of Basra and ordered him to march against Kufa.

Under this prince, or king, as he was called, the power of the Buyids reached its zenith.

In the first year of the Caliphate of al-Moqtadi bi amri'llah (" he who follows the orders of God"), a grandson of Qaim, the power of the Seljuk empire reached its zenith.

In order to understand the events of his life and the influence of his opinions, we must endeavour to get some impression of the China that existed in his time, in the 5th and 6th centuries B.C. The dynasty of Chow, the third which within historic time had ruled the country, lasting from 1122 to 256 B.C., had passed its zenith, and its kings no longer held the sceptre with a firm grasp. The territory under their sway was not a sixth part of the present empire.

The popularity of Donne as a preacher rose to its zenith when he returned to his pulpit, and it continued there until his death.

It was the zenith of the power of the baronial anarchists, who moved from camo to camp with shameless rapidity, wresting from one or other of the two rival sovereigns some royal castle, or some dangerous grant of financial or judicial rights, at each change of allegiance.

This line, extended upwards, meets the celestial sphere in the zenith.

This point in our middle latitudes is between the zenith and the north horizon, near a certain star of the second magnitude familiarly known as the Pole Star.

Then the plumb line not only defines the zenith as already shown, but in a downward direction it defines the nadir, which is the point of the sphere directly below our feet.