Nadir - What does it mean?
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The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.
* 1638 , Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique :
(figuratively) The lowest point; time of greatest depression.
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* 1950 , Elizabeth Janeway, in Helen Hull (editor), The Writer’s Book :
(astronomy) The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.
(beekeeping, archaic) An empty box added beneath a full one in a beehive to give the colony more room to expand or store honey.
nadir
English
Noun
(en noun)- The seventh century is the nadir of the human mind in Europe.
- In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year’s end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets.
- The nadir of the sun is the axis of the shadow projected by the Earth.