See Also: azimuth(medicine)
azimuth(dictionary)
altitude and azimuth(encyclopedia)

vigour (iou) and azimuth (iou)


vigour (iou)



vigour noun. Also *vigor. ME.
[Old French (mod. vigueur) from Latin vigor liveliness, activity, from vigere be lively, flourish: see -OR, -OUR.]
Active physical strength; vitality; activity or energy of body or constitution. ME.
G. Crabbe When Honour..gave thee every charm, Fire to thy eye and vigour to thy arm. E. Figes What..gives him the vigour to go off..as though time had not touched him?
b. Strong or flourishing growth in a plant or vegetation. E17.
Vital or powerful operative force or strength; powerfulness or intensity of effect or operation. LME.
W. Lithgow The vigour of the day gone, and the cooling night come, we aduanced. Independent The downside of all this macho vigour is a tendency for the car to buck.
b. Forcefulness in the expression of ideas, artistic feeling, etc.; rousing or stirring quality. M16.
Guardian This..recording fully captures the vigour..which gave his piano playing such lasting quality.
Law. Legal or binding force; validity. Freq. in in vigour, in force or operation. Now rare. LME.
A condition or state at which strength or activity are at a peak; the prime of life. Also formerly (Medicine), the height or peak of a disease. M16.
A. N. Wilson Minto, still in the days of her vigour, feeding the fowls, exercising the dogs.
Mental or moral robustness, energy, or activity; animation or liveliness of thought or the faculties. L16.
L. Grant-Adamson An attractive man, whose physical energy was matched by intellectual vigour.
Strong, firm, or energetic action, esp. in administration or government; the power or use of this. E17.
Parliamentary Affairs He..chided those departments which had failed to pursue the new managerialism with sufficient vigour.
vigourless adjective M18.

azimuth (iou)



azimuth noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French azimut from Arab. as-samt, from AL-2 + samt way, direction: see ZENITH.]
1. An arc of a celestial great circle extending from the zenith to the horizon. Now only in azimuth circle, a great circle passing through the zenith. LME.
2. Horizontal angular distance of such an arc (usu. that passing through a given celestial object) from the north or south point. E17.
3. Horizontal angle or direction; compass bearing. M17.
azimuthal adjective of, pertaining to, or used in measuring azimuth; measured in azimuth: M17.
azi'muthally adverb M19.