11 October 2017

azimuth

[az-uh-muh th]

noun

1. Astronomy, Navigation. the arc of the horizon measured clockwise from the south point, in astronomy, or from the north point, in navigation, to the point where a vertical circle through a given heavenly body intersects the horizon.
2. Surveying, Gunnery. the angle of horizontal deviation, measured clockwise, of a bearing from a standard direction, as from north or south.

Origin of azimuth

Middle English Middle French Arabic

1350-1400; Middle English azimut < Middle French ≪ Arabic as sumūt the ways (i.e., directions)

Related forms

azimuthal [az-uh-muhth-uh l], adjective

azimuthally, adverb

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Examples from the Web for azimuth

Contemporary Examples

Variables like weather, azimuth, elevation, crude launchers, and rocket viability quickly add up.
Dodging Rockets in Afghanistan as the Taliban’s Fighting Season Begins
Nick Willard
May 14, 2014

Historical Examples

To find an azimuth of the sun: Note the time of taking the azimuth by chronometer.
Lectures in Navigation
Ernest Gallaudet Draper

At the same time, get your true bearing of the sun from the azimuth Tables.
Lectures in Navigation
Ernest Gallaudet Draper

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On this day

11 October – International Day of the Girl.

11 October 1844 – birth of Henry John Heinz, founder of Heinz Company, responsible for canned baked beans. Died 14 May 1919.

11 October 1935 – death of Steele Rudd, Australian author, (pen-name for Arthur Hoey Davis). Wrote ‘On Our Selection‘, which introduced Australia to ‘Dad and Dave’. Born 14 November 1868.

11 October 1930 – Australian Rules football club, Collingwood, win the VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year.

11 October 1939 – German theoretical physicist, Albert Einstein explains to the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the possibility of building an atomic bomb.

11 October 1967 – premier of the childrens’ TV series, ‘Johnny Sokko and his flying robot‘.