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zenith

noun
🔊/ˈzenɪθ/
🔊/ˈziːnɪθ/
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  1. the highest point that the sun or moon reaches in the sky, directly above you天顶（太阳或月亮在天空中的最高点）
    • The sun rose towards its zenith.太阳朝着天顶升起。
    Topics Spacec2, Weatherc2
  2. (formal) the time when something is strongest and most successful鼎盛时期；顶峰 synonym peak
    • The rock band was at the zenith of its creative powers.摇滚乐队处于其创造力的顶峰。
    opposite nadirTopics Successc2
    3. Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French or medieval Latin cenit, based on Arabic samt (ar-ra's) ‘path (over the head)’.

Zenith

🔊/ˈzenɪθ/
🔊/ˈziːnɪθ/
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  1. a brand of radio and television equipment, first established in the US in 1918, and now owned by LG Electronics. Its full name was the Zenith Electronics Corporation. For many years it used the advertising phrase, ‘The quality goes in before the name goes on’. It made the world's first portable radio (= one that is easy to carry), the first modern television remote control device (= one that operates a television from a distance, using electronic signals), and the first digital HDTV.