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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--azimuth This week's theme: words with built-in definite articles. azimuth (AZ-uh-muhth) noun The horizontal angle to an object, measured clockwise from a fixed reference point, usually north or south. [From French azimut, from Latin azimut, from Arabic al-sumut, from al (the) + samt (way).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "The company's unique medium-gain antenna finds and tracks the satellite in azimuth, electronically." Dan Fales; Sky high; Motor Boating & Sailing; Feb 1997. X-Bonus If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it -- too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul -- the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

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