AZ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does AZ mean? 

• AZ (noun)
  The noun AZ has 2 senses:

1. the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian

2. a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon

  Familiarity information: AZ used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AZ (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

AZ; azimuth

Hypernyms ("AZ" is a kind of...):

angle (the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Arizona; AZ; Grand Canyon State

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "AZ"):

Lake Mead (the largest reservoir in the United States; located in southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona and formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River; the center of a recreational area)

Grand Canyon (the enormous gorge of the Colorado River in northern Arizona)

Gila; Gila River (a river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River)

Colorado Plateau (a large plateau to the south and west of the Rocky Mountains; abuts mountains on the north and east and ends in an escarpment overlooking lowlands to the south and west; the Grand Canyon is carved out of the southwestern corner)

Colorado; Colorado River (an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States)

Cataract Canyon (a tributary of the Grand Canyon)

Sonoran Desert (a desert in southwestern Arizona)

Painted Desert (a desert on a high plateau in northeastern Arizona)

Mohave; Mohave Desert; Mojave; Mojave Desert (a desert area in southern California and western Arizona)

Gila Desert (a desert area in southern Arizona)

Chihuahuan Desert (a desert in western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico)

Yuma (a town in southwestern Arizona on the Colorado River and the California border)

Tucson (a city in southeastern Arizona ringed by mountain ranges; long known as a winter and health resort but the population shift from industrial states to the Sunbelt resulted in rapid growth late in the 20th century)

Sun City (a residential suburb of Phoenix)

Prescott (a town in central Arizona)

capital of Arizona; Phoenix (the state capital and largest city located in south central Arizona; situated in a former desert that has become a prosperous agricultural area thanks to irrigation)

Nogales (a town in Arizona on the Mexican border opposite Nogales, Mexico)

Mesa (a city in Arizona just to the east of Phoenix; originally a suburb of Phoenix)

Flagstaff (a town in north central Arizona; site of an important observatory)

Petrified Forest National Park (a national park in Arizona having the world's largest collection of petrified coniferous trees)

Grand Canyon National Park (a national park in Arizona including the mile deep canyon of the Colorado River which shows geologic features and fossil plants and animals)

Lake Powell (the second largest reservoir in the United States; located in southern Utah and north central Arizona and formed by the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River)

Glen Canyon Dam (a large dam built in 1964 on the Colorado River in Arizona)

Holonyms ("AZ" is a part of...):

Southwest; southwestern United States (the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado)

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)