Apogee

Quick meaning: Apogee is a noun meaning (astronomy) The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is farthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter.

Meaning

(astronomy) The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is farthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter.

More Meanings

1. (astronomy, more generally) The point, in an orbit about any planet, that is farthest from the planet: the apoapsis of any satellite.
2. (possibly archaic outside astrology) The point, in any trajectory of an object in space, where it is farthest from the Earth.
3. (figuratively) The highest point.

Example Sentences

[Nereid’s] apogee—farthest point from Neptune—is five times the distance of its perigee—its closest 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.

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).

Word Forms

• apogees

Synonyms for apogee

Depending on context, synonyms include apocenter, apoapsis, apsis, acme, culmination, pinnacle.

Antonyms for apogee

Common opposites include periapsis, perigee, nadir.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include culmination, zenith, apex, peak, height, pinnacle.

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