Nadir

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Nadir may refer to any of the following:

• Nadir, a low point of reference
• Nadir also means rare or unique in Arabic and Hebrew (נדיר).
• Nadir of American race relations, a period from the end of Reconstruction to the 1920s
• A fictional tribe in various novels by David Gemmell such as Legend and The King Beyond the Gate
• A runeword sequence in the role-playing game add-on Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
• A single by American heavy metal band Byzantine from the album Oblivion Beckons.
• In astrology, the nadir is synonymous with the imum coeli.
• In photography, an image taken from a camera which is pointed straight down.
• "Nadir", a song by Sadist from Above the Light

Sciences

By association, nadir is also used to mean the lowest point in a number of fields:

• In biology and the natural sciences, nadir refers to the lowest point of a measured parameter within the recorded range of a controlled parameter, such as a temporal low point in the population of a species.
• In hydrology nadir may refer to the low point in a lake level varying by season or for a long term natural cycle.
• In economics, nadir means a low in the price of products.
• In medicine, nadir can also be used to refer to the lowest blood count for a given patient in a given period of time (i.e., a patient's ANC Nadir or absolute neutrophil count). For example, patients undergoing chemotherapy will exhibit an ANC Nadir a week after starting therapy due to bone marrow suppression.
• In topography, a nadir may be the lowest point of a dry basin or depression, or the deepest point of a body of water or ice.

People

• Asil Nadir, Turkish Cypriot businessman
• Nadir Afonso (born 1920), Portuguese painter
• Nadir Shah, Shah of Persia from 1736 to 1747
• Zain Nadir, a fictional character in the ITV drama The Bill
• Nadir Belhadj, a French-Algerian footballer who plays for Portsmouth FC in the English Premier League

Abbreviations

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