Prominence vs Zenith - What's the difference?
prominence | zenith |
The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
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*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
Relative importance.
A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
(lb) Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.
(astronomy) The point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir.
* 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
* 1671–1693 : Rev. Thomas Jolly, private notebook ; printed in:
* 1895 , Henry Fishwick (editor), The Note Book of the Rev. Thomas Jolly: A.D. 1671–1693. Extracts from the Church Books of Altham and Wymondhouses, 1649–1725. And an Account of the Jolly Family of Standish, Gorton, and Altham ,
(astronomy) The highest point in the sky reached by a celestial body.
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* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter II:
Highest point or state; peak.
* Shakespeare
* Macaulay
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As nouns the difference between prominence and zenith
is that prominence is the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent while zenith is zenith.prominence
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(wikipedia prominence)Noun
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(wikipedia zenith)Noun
(en noun)- The 12 day wee had the wind high and large ?o that in two dayes ?aile we made the Sunne our Zenith or verticall point...
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- In this 10th m. appeared that prodigious Comett the tayl whereof was like the blade of a double edged sword, and reached almost from the horizon to the zenith .
- ...in the middle of the day, when the sun was in the zenith , the violence of the heat was too great to stir out...
- As far to the west as Monica could see, her world was a sea of fog, , the fog gradually took on a bluish tinge.
- I find my zenith doth depend upon / A most auspicious star.
- It was during those civil troubles this aspiring family reached the zenith .
citation, passage="There for a while I enjoyed myself in the zenith of glory and pleasure."}}