nadir

nadir

  1. tähtitiede|k=en nadiiri

  2. kuvaannollinen|k=en aallonpohja

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nadir

  1. taivaanpiste, nadiiri, vastoinkäyminen, vaikeus, vaiva, koettelemusten koulu, aallonpohja.

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aallonpohja

nadiiri 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:

(..) when we are Nadyr to the Sunne, we have no ſhadow (..)
puhekieltä The lowest point; time of greatest depression.
1837, w:Henry Hallam|Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries:
(..) the seventh century is the nadir of the human mind in Europe (..)
1950, Elizabeth Janeway, in Helen Hull (editor), The Writer’s Book:
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.
puhekieltä The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.

The nadir of the sun is the axis of the shadow projected by the Earth.

puhekieltä An empty box added beneath a full one in a beehive to give the colony more room to expand or store honey.
puhekieltä To extend (a beehive) by adding an empty box at the base.
puhekieltä English nadir
(l) (gloss)
puhekieltä (l) (gloss)
rare

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