AZIMUTH

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin azimut, from Arabic al-sumūt the ~, plural of al-samt the way Date: 14th century an arc of the horizon measured between a fixed point (as true north) and the vertical circle passing through the center of an object usually in astronomy and navigation clockwise from the north point through 360 degrees, horizontal direction expressed as the angular distance between the direction of a fixed point (as the observer's heading) and the direction of the object, ~al adjective ~ally adverb