(n.) That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth.
(n.) Fig.: The farthest or highest point; culmination.
Example Sentences:
(1) The apogee, for me, is his book Terra Nullius , a 2005 Australia travelogue that indicts Britons and white Australians for terrible abuses such as the transportation of Aborigine women to the chillingly named Isle of the Dead where they were given inappropriate and often fatal syphilis treatment, and the extensive forced separation of "half-blood" children from their families to prison-like camps.
(2) From a test flight perspective, I’m less focused on the apogee, although the outside world is focused on the apogee.
(3) All this reached its apogee in 1987, with the sleeve art for Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason .
(4) A well pad sits only a couple hundred feet from Apogee Stadium, home of the university’s Mean Green football team.
(5) Whitesides’ comments two weeks ago made it clear that thermal protection, and not the height – or apogee – reached by the craft, was his main concern.
(6) For Britons reared on the Churchillian narrative, for Americans who crossed the Atlantic to save Europe from Nazi barbarism, for Russians who see the defeat of Hitler as their finest moment, and most of all, for Jews to whom the Holocaust represents the apogee of evil, Ozols' position may seem perverse.
(7) It has been found that in the mature female carp in the pre-spawning period with the light periods being long (L:D = 16:8) the apogee for gonadotropin occurs 10 hr after the onset of the light period.
(8) Michael Jackson dead was the scoop of a lifetime for any media outlet, and the apogee of the four-year-old celebrity-obsessed site that boasts its snippets are "even more fascinating than the hype".
(9) Conservative ideas of fairness are sometimes cast as "fair dues"; the success of David Davis, son of a single parent raised on a council estate, is cited as its apogee.
(10) Onset of labor data revealed a diurnal distribution with an apogee at midnight to 2 AM and a nadir at 11 AM to noon.
(11) The apogee of this feeling came in the summer with the release of Burn (a track first written for the X Factor winner Leona Lewis).
(12) So it's probably worth noting at this stage that people have been declaring episodic storytelling, mixed voices and unreliable narrators as the apogee of innovation at least since Achaemenides told Aeneas about Polyphemus.
(13) There were two steroid peaks between the LH apogees.
(14) Built in the 1560, the gigantic mausoleum is an example of a great tomb-building tradition which reached its apogee 100 years later with the Taj Mahal.
(15) Immediate, transient pressor responses occurred in 94 per cent followed by a more gradual sustained change in blood pressure reaching an apogee in about 20 minutes.
(16) The choices thereafter are many – you are close to the ridge and the Spanish border – but that spring is the apogee of the walk.
(17) While the Disney film is set at the apogee of empire – "The year is 1910, it's the age of men" crowed David Tomlinson as Mr Banks – Travers's book is firmly located in the 1930s, Auden's "low, dishonest decade".
(18) The hourly means of ionized calcium and phosphorus demonstrate significant diurnal variation with a similar apogee, nadir, and periodicity (24 hours).
(19) Nobody wants, and, in particular, nobody wants to pay for, a restoration of the Swedish welfare state at its apogee.
(20) To a gathered crowd of onlookers, Otis ascended into the air on his platform, then, at the apogee, had an assistant cut the rope with a dagger.
Zenith
Definition:
(n.) That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; -- opposed to nadir.
(n.) hence, figuratively, the point of culmination; the greatest height; the height of success or prosperity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
(2) After 24 h of fasting the zenith was shifted to the beginning of dark period without any other changes.
(3) Clinical electroencephalography, which reached a zenith in the 1950s and 1960s, increased the range of diagnostic techniques available for a series of brain diseases and revolutionized the study of epilepsy.
(4) That triumphal speech was his apex, the acme, the zenith of his career.
(5) The circadian rhythm of PRL persisted throughout lactation as manifested by: (1) significantly higher mean nighttime than daytime PRL levels in the whole sample, despite higher daytime nursing durations; (2) the distribution of zenith levels which most frequently occur between 23.00 and 07.00 h, when nursing duration is lowest, and which are almost absent between 07.00 and 23.00 h, when nursing duration is highest, and of nadir levels, which have an opposite pattern; (3) spontaneous PRL surges that are more frequent, longer, and of higher magnitude at night than during the day, and (4) the larger magnitude of suckling-induced PRL release from late afternoon through the night compared to the morning in some women.
(6) The zeniths of the curves were recorded about 4--6 hours after the skin incision in both patient groups, despite the different duration of the operations.
(7) However, 1990 proved to be not only the Indy's circulation zenith but also a watershed for its publishing company as recession bit hard into revenue.
(8) After 48 h of fasting remarkable shifts were found resulting in a nadir at the beginning of dark period and a zenith at the middle of light period.
(9) The dying have much to teach the living: so in many ways, this project is the zenith of the Big Brother experiment.
(10) The kind of cinema that reached a zenith in Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers .
(11) The cercal system, which may have evolved with the first terrestrial hexapods, reaches its zenith in the orthopteroid insects, but was replaced in holometabolan insects by visual startle mechanisms with descending giant interneurons.
(12) Population growth reached its zenith between 1950-70.
(13) We detected a consistent and significant (P less than 0.01) decline in plasma chromium after glucose administration, the nadir of the chromium response coinciding with the zenith of the glucose concentration.
(14) Thus, the ED30s constitute the "zenith" of an independent isobole in ED50 isobolograms.
(15) They reached a zenith during the Vietnam war when the US government allegedly conducted their highly classified Operation Popeye, an attempt to extend the monsoon season by cloud seeding in the hope of flushing out the Viet Cong.
(16) On Sunday, Mélenchon's star reached its zenith, when early results gave him 11.1% of votes, several percentage points lower than had been expected.
(17) Whereas phosphate has a marked circadian rhythmicity with a zenith between 1.00 and 8.00 hours, total calcium and albumin show a tendency to decrease between 20.00 and 6.00 hours.
(18) The zenith of suppressor activity was observed during most active infection, from 1 to 3 weeks after inoculation.
(19) At the zenith of a culture war, there’s seldom room for compromise.
(20) The highest pressures in the series (about 4 to 5 megaNewtons per square metre) were on the areas of thin fibrocartilage which were identified at the zenith of certain acetabula.