Nadir (disambiguation)
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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 the novel Legend, by David Gemmell
- 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.
- 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 a temporal low point in the population of a species, or the lowest point of some other parameter.
- 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 astrology, the nadir is synonymous with the imum coeli.
- 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

