Zenith (disambiguation)
Appearance
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The zenith is the point in the sky that appears directly above the observer.
Zenith or Zénith may also refer to:
- Summit, a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it
Automotive
[edit]- Zenith Carburettor Company (British), a British carburetor maker
- Zenith Carburetor Company, an American carburetor company, unrelated to the British firm
Aviation
[edit]- Ellipse Zenith, a French hang glider
- Zenith, a balloon flown to a record altitude of over 8,000 meters in 1875; see timeline of aviation—19th century (1870s)
- Zenith Aircraft Company, a manufacturer of light aircraft
Business
[edit]- Zenith Administrators, Inc. and Zenith American Solutions, respectively predecessor and successor companies of American Benefit Plan Administrators
- Zenith Bank, a Nigerian bank
- Zenit (camera), a Russian camera brand produced by KMZ (spelled as Zenith in some English-language literature)
- Zenith Data Systems, computer hardware company
- Zenith Education Group, a subsidiary of Educational Credit Management Corporation which operates colleges in the United States
- Zenith Electronics, a radio and television manufacturer
- Zenith Insurance Company, an American insurance company
- Zenith Motorcycles, a now defunct British motorcycle manufacturer
- Zenith (watchmaker), a Swiss watchmaker
Entertainment
[edit]- Le Zénith, the common name for a series of indoor arenas, all similar in design, in France (15 at present)
- Zénith Paris, the first and most famous of the venues
- Zénith d'Orléans
- Zénith de Strasbourg
- Zenith Brass, a youth brass choir in Michigan, US
- Zenith (building), a culture and exhibition centre in Munich, Germany
- Zenith, a computer game by Nasir Gebelli
- Zenith Productions, a defunct British independent film and television production company
Fiction
[edit]- Zenith (film), a 2010 American film
- "The Zenith" (Voltron: Legendary Defender), a 2018 eighth season episode
- Monsieur Zenith, 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, a city in Sinclair Lewis's fictional state of Winnemac, and the setting for his 1922 novel Babbitt
- Zenith Caste, caste in the role-playing game Exalted
- Zenith Castle, or Zenithia, a sky castle from the Dragon Quest video game series
- Zenith, a book written by Julie Bertagna
- 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
[edit]- Zenith (Grayskul album)
- Zenith (Alfie Arcuri album)
- Zenith (Molly Nilsson album)
- Zenith (Sam Rivers album)
- "Zenith", a song from the album Starbound Beast by Huntress
- "Zenith", a song from the album Decipher by After Forever
- "Zenith", a song from the album Meliora by Ghost
- "Zenith", a song from the album Reborn by Kavinsky
- "The Zenith", a song from the album Silver by Starflyer 59
Ships
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Zenith, Georgia, 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, unincorporated community
- Zenith, West Virginia, unincorporated community in the United States
- Zenith City, nickname of Duluth, Minnesota, United States
- Zenith Heights, Michigan, an unincorporated community
Other uses
[edit]- Zenith (1985 painting), painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol
- Zenith (magazine), a German magazine of Arabic and Islamic studies
- Zénith FC, professional football club based in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti
- Zenith number, 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, or Zenith Seamount, an undersea bathymetric high beneath the Indian Ocean
- Zenith Go, or Zen, computer Go program
- Zenith Jones Brown, an American crime fiction writer