apogee
nounEtymology
From Middle French apogée, from Latin apogaeum, apogēum, from Ancient Greek ἀπόγειον (apógeion, “away from Earth”), from ἀπό (apó, “away”) + γῆ (gê, “Earth”).
- borrowed from apogée
Definitions
The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is farthest from the Earth
The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is farthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter.
The point, in an orbit about any planet, that is farthest from the planet
The point, in an orbit about any planet, that is farthest from the planet: the apoapsis of any satellite.
- Conjunctions of I and II [Io and Europa] occur when they are near perigee and apogee respectively; conjunctions of II and III [Europa and Ganymede] occur when II [Europa] is near perigee.
- The resolution of the images obtained by this American probe [Messenger] will depend on its altitude [above Mercury] at any one time: about ten meters at perigee (200km altitude), but only one 1 km at apogee (15000km).
- [Nereid’s] apogee—farthest point from Neptune—is five times the distance of its perigee—its closest point.
The point, in any trajectory of an object in space, where it is farthest from the Earth.
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The highest point.
- The cult of the chief executive reached its apogee in the nineteen-nineties, a period when C.E.O.s seemed not so much to serve their companies as to embody them.
The neighborhood
- synonymapocenterpoint in an orbit
- synonymapoapsispoint in an orbit
- synonymapsispoint in an orbit
- antonymperiapsisantonym(s) of “a point in an orbit”
- antonymperigeeantonym(s) of “a point in an orbit around the Earth”
- antonymperigee is the etymological antonym
- antonymnadirantonym(s) of “highest point”
- neighborapoapsis
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No curated loop yet for apogee. 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