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the lowest point you'll hit, named so the universe can chart your bounce.
means The absolute lowest point of something — the bottom of a decline, the worst moment in a run of bad ones.
from From Arabic 'naẓīr' (as-samt), meaning 'opposite' — specifically the point in the sky directly opposite the zenith, straight down beneath your feet. Medieval astronomers borrowed it through Latin into the European languages, so the word arrived as a precise sky-mapping term before it ever meant rock bottom. Its high-flying twin, 'zenith,' comes from the same Arabic astronomical vocabulary — the two are a matched pair, the ceiling and the floor of the heavens.
- sky opposite
- directly beneath you, opposite the overhead zenith
- arabic root
- from nazir, meaning opposite or facing
- astronomy term
- the point straight down through Earth's center
- figurative use
- now means the absolute rock bottom of anything
titanic sinking — struck iceberg april 15, 1912 in north atlantic, 1,500+ deaths, lowest moment in maritime history