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: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=azimuth

-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.

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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
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Pronunciation:
http://wordsmith.org/words/azimuth.wav
http://wordsmith.org/words/azimuth.ram

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