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zenith The zenith (, ) is the imaginary point on the celestial sphere directly "above" a particular location. "Above" means in the vertical direction (Vertical and horizontal, plumb line) opposite to the gravity direction at that location (nadir). The z ...

is the point in the sky that appears directly above the observer. Zenith or Zénith may also refer to: *

Summit A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain peak), and zenith are synonymous. The term (mountain top) is generally used only for ...

, a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it

Automotive

Zenith Carburettor Company (British) The Zenith Carburetter Company Limited was a British company making carburettors in Stanmore Middlesex, founded in 1912 as a subsidiary of the French . In 1965, the company joined with its major pre-war rival Solex Carburettors, and ove ...

, a British carburetor maker *

Zenith Carburetor Company Zenith Carburetor (later the Fuel Devices Division of Bendix Corporation) was an American manufacturer of gasoline engine management systems and components, chiefly carburetors and filters. It was founded in Detroit, Michigan in 1911 as a subsidi ...

, an American carburetor company, unrelated to the British firm

Aviation

Ellipse Zenith The Ellipse Zenith is a French high-wing, single-place, hang glider that was designed and produced by La société Ellipse of Étuz.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 43. Pagefast Ltd, Lanc ...

, a French hang glider * Zenith, a balloon flown to a record altitude of more than 8,000 meters in 1875; see timeline of aviation—19th century (1870s) *

Zenith Aircraft Company Zenith Aircraft Company is a designer, developer and manufacturer of kit aircraft. History The independent, privately owned company was formed in 1992 in Mexico, Missouri, and is based in 20,000+ sq. ft. production facilities at Mexico Memori ...

, a manufacturer of light aircraft

Business

* Zenith Administrators, Inc. and Zenith American Solutions, respectively predecessor and successor companies of

American Benefit Plan Administrators American Benefit Plan Administrators, Inc. (ABPA), founded in 1951,About ABPA
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Zenith Bank Zenith Bank Plc is a major financial services provider in Nigeria and Anglophone West Africa, headquartered in Victoria Island, Lagos. It is licensed as a commercial bank by the Central Bank of Nigeria, the national banking regulator. , it ho ...

, a Nigerian bank *

Zenit (camera) Zenit () is a Soviet Union, Soviet camera brand manufactured by Krasnogorskiy Zavod, KMZ in the town of Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Krasnogorsk near Moscow since 1952 and by BELOMO, BelOMO in Belarus since the 1970s. The Zenit trademark is assoc ...

, a Russian camera brand produced by KMZ (spelled as ''Zenith'' in some English-language literature) *

Zenith Data Systems Zenith Data Systems Corporation (ZDS) was an American computer systems manufacturing company active from 1979 to 1996. It was originally a division of the Zenith Radio Company (later Zenith Electronics), after they had purchased the Heath Com ...

, computer hardware company *

Zenith Education Group Educational Credit Management Corporation (ECMC) is a United States nonprofit corporation based in Minnesota. Since 1994, ECMC has operated in the areas of student loan bankruptcy management and loan collection. ECMC is one of a number of ''guara ...

, a subsidiary of Educational Credit Management Corporation which operates colleges in the United States *

Zenith Electronics Zenith Electronics, LLC, is an American research and development company that develops ATSC and digital rights management technologies. It is owned by the South Korean company LG Electronics. Zenith was previously an American brand of consumer e ...

, a radio and television manufacturer * Zenith Insurance Company, an American insurance company *

Zenith Motorcycles Zenith Motorcycles was a British motorcycle and automobile manufacturer established in Finsbury Park (area), Finsbury Park, London in 1903, by W. G. Bowers. Automobile manufacture only lasted from 1905 to 1906. The first Zenith motorcycle was t ...

, a now defunct British motorcycle manufacturer *

Zenith (watchmaker) Zenith SA is a French owned Swiss luxury watch manufacturing subsidiary of LVMH. The company was started in 1865 by Georges Favre-Jacot in Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel and is one of the oldest continuously operating watchmakers. Favre- ...

, a Swiss watchmaker

Entertainment

* , the common name for a series of indoor arenas, all similar in design, in France (15 at present) **

Zénith Paris Zénith Paris (originally known as Zénith de Paris, ; and commonly referred to as Le Zénith, ) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Paris, France. It is located in the Parc de la Villette in the 19th arrondissement on the edge of the Canal d ...

, the first and most famous of the venues **

Zénith d'Orléans Zénith d'Orléans is an indoor sporting arena and concert hall that is located in the city of Orléans, France. The arena, one of a series of similar venues throughout France, has a seating capacity of 5,338 for basketball games and 6,900 for ...

** Zénith de Strasbourg * Zenith Brass, a youth brass choir in Michigan, US *

Zenith (building) The Kulturhalle Zenith (also known as the Zenith Halle or simply Zenith) is an events hall located in the Schwabing-Freimann borough of Munich, Germany. Originally opening in 1918 as a part of a railway repair shop, the hall was converted into p ...

, a culture and exhibition centre in Munich, Germany * ''Zenith'', a computer game by

Nasir Gebelli Nasir Gebelli (, also Nasser Gebelli, born 1957) is an Iranian-American programmer and video game designer usually credited in his games as simply Nasir. He became known in the early 1980s for programming action games for Apple II, such as '' ...

Zenith Productions Zenith Productions (later Zenith Entertainment) was a British independent film and television production company. Zenith created content for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky and UKTV, including a number of series such as '' Inspector Morse'' for ...

, a defunct British independent film and television production company

Fiction

* ''Zenith'' (film), a 2010 American film * "The Zenith" (''Voltron: Legendary Defender''), a 2018 eighth season episode *

Monsieur Zenith Monsieur Zenith the Albino is a fictional character who appeared as a recurring antagonist in the Sexton Blake detective series. Created by writer Anthony Skene in 1919, Zenith became one of Blake's most notable and popular adversaries. Originall ...

, a villain in the Sexton Blake series of detective pulp fiction * ''Zenith'' (comics), a superhero comic series written by Grant Morrison that first appeared in ''2000 AD'' *

Zenith, Winnemac ''Babbitt'' (1922), by Sinclair Lewis, is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by ''Babbitt'' was influential in ...

, a city in Sinclair Lewis's fictional state of Winnemac, and the setting for his 1922 novel ''Babbitt'' *

Zenith Caste ''Exalted'' is a high fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally published by White Wolf Publishing in July 2001. The game is currently in its third edition. It was originally created by Robert Hatch, Justin Achilli and Stephan Wieck, ...

, caste in the role-playing game ''Exalted'' *

Zenith Castle previously published as ''Dragon Warrior'' in North America until 2005, is a series of role-playing video games created by Japanese game designer Yuji Horii (Armor Project), character designer Akira Toriyama (Bird Studio), and composer Koichi ...

, or Zenithia, a sky castle from the ''Dragon Quest'' video game series * ''Zenith'', a book written by

Julie Bertagna Julie Bertagna (born 1962) is a Scottish author who has written real life and science fiction novels for children and young adults. Her books have been shortlisted for several literature awards, including the Carnegie Medal. Her novel ''Exodus ...

* Zenith Carrierzord, a Zord in ''Power Rangers Lost Galaxy'' that was formerly the Shark Galactabeast * Zenith, the home planet of ''Winx Club'' member Tecna, the fairy of technology

Music

* ''Zenith'' (Grayskul album) * ''Zenith'' (Alfie Arcuri album) * Zenith (Molly Nilsson album) * ''Zenith'' (Sam Rivers album) * Zenith (Bleed from Within album) * "Zenith", a song from the album ''

Starbound Beast ''Starbound Beast'' is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Huntress. It was released on July 2, 2013. Track listing Music by Huntress and lyrics by Jill Janus, except where noted. Personnel ;Huntress *Jill Janus Jil ...

'' by Huntress * "Zenith", a song from the album ''

Decipher DECIPHER is a web-based resource and database of genomic variation data from analysis of patient DNA. It documents submicroscopic Chromosome abnormality, chromosome abnormalities (Deletion (genetics), microdeletions and Gene duplication, duplic ...

'' by After Forever * "Zenith", a song from the album ''

Meliora is a Latin adjective meaning "better". It is the neuter plural (nominative or Accusative case, accusative) form of the adjective "melior, -or, -us". It may be used in the accusative and substantively (i.e., as a noun) to mean "better things", ...

'' by Ghost * "Zenith", a song from the album '' Reborn'' by Kavinsky * "The Zenith", a song from the album ''

Silver Silver is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Ag () and atomic number 47. A soft, whitish-gray, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. ...

'' by Starflyer 59

Ships

* HMS ''Zenith'', the name of various ships of the British Royal Navy and of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Division at Southampton * MV ''The Zenith'', a cruise ship * USS ''Zenith'' (SP-61), a patrol vessel that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1918

Places

Zenith, Georgia Zenith is an unincorporated community in Crawford County, Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the southeastern United States Georgia may also refer ...

, unincorporated community in the United States * Zenith, Illinois, unincorporated community in the United States * Zenith, Kansas, unincorporated community in the United States * Zenith, North Dakota, unincorporated community in the United States * Zenith, Pennsylvania, unincorporated community in the United States *

Zenith, Tennessee Zenith is an unincorporated community in Fentress County, Tennessee Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It bor ...

, unincorporated community * Zenith, West Virginia, unincorporated community in the United States *

Zenith City Duluth ( ) is a port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of St. Louis County. Located on Lake Superior in Minnesota's Arrowhead Region, the city is a hub for cargo shipping. The population was 86,697 at the 2020 census, m ...

, nickname of Duluth, Minnesota, United States *

Zenith Heights, Michigan The zenith (, ) is the imaginary point on the celestial sphere directly "above" a particular location. "Above" means in the vertical direction (plumb line) opposite to the gravity direction at that location (nadir). The zenith is the "highest" po ...

, an unincorporated community

Other uses

* ''Zenith'' (1985 painting), painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol * ''Zenith'' (magazine), a German magazine of Arabic and Islamic studies *

Zénith FC Zénith Football Club is a professional football club based in Cap-Haïtien Cap-Haïtien (; ; "Haitian Cape") is a List of communes of Haiti, commune of about 400,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the Departments of Hait ...

, professional football club based in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti *

Zenith number A Zenith number was a telephone service in the United States that allowed a calling party to call the service subscriber at no charge by requesting the name ''Zenith'' and the number from a switchboard operator. The service preceded the system ...

, also known as Enterprise or WX, referring to a toll-free telephone service * Zenith camera, an astronomic or geodetic instrument which is directed exactly to the zenith *

Zenith Plateau The Zenith Plateau is a large bathymetry, bathymetric high in the Indian Ocean, located about west-northwest of the Wallaby Plateau, west-northwest of Carnarvon, Western Australia, and north-west of Perth, Western Australia. The summit of the Ze ...

, or Zenith Seamount, an undersea bathymetric high beneath the Indian Ocean *

Zenith Go Zen, sold as Tencho no Igo (, literally Zenith Go) in Japan, is a closed source Go playing engine developed by Yoji Ojima (尾島陽児), a Japanese Go programmer. History to 2016 Zen won a gold medal in 14th Computer Olympiad in May 2009. It won ...

, or Zen, computer Go program * Zenith Jones Brown (1898–1983), an American crime fiction writer