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Definition of Nadirs
1. nadir [n] - See also: nadir
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nadirs
Literary usage of Nadirs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Masterpieces of Murder: An Edmund Pearson True Crime Reader by Edmund Lester Pearson, Gerald Gross (1876)
"This may be designate the conjoined solar-lunar syzygies, and at this time the
spring-tides reach maximum altitude, and the waters at the nadirs sink to ..."
2. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1878)
"Attracted by the proceedings upstairs, other idlers join the working band, and
the super is fairly started ; then the beekeeper nadirs with another ..."
3. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1889)
"At least four nadirs per observing-night will be taken, as well as four determinations
of level over mercury, four by the hanging level, one collimation, ..."
4. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1903)
"A night's program consisted in observing the above list, together with three
nadirs, one before, one during, and one after the observing of the stars. ..."
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