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Word: nadir
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Noun:
- astronomy The axis of a projected conical shadow (e.g. the nadir of the sun is the axis of the conical shadow projected by the Earth)
- archaic an empty box added beneath a full one in a beehive to give the colony more room to expand or store honey.
- figuratively The lowest point; time of greatest depression.
- 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.
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