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apoapsis

noun

Etymology

From apo- + apsis.

  1. derived from ἁψίς
  2. borrowed from apsis
  3. prefixed as apoapsis — “apo + apsis”

Definitions

  1. The point of a body's elliptical orbit about the system's centre of mass where the…

    The point of a body's elliptical orbit about the system's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its maximum.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for apoapsis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA