apogee

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Antonyms 1.3.3 Translations

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[edit] Etymology

Via Latin apogaeum and French apogée from Ancient Greek ἀπόγειον (“‘away from Earth’”), from ἀπό (apo), “‘away’”) + γῆ (gē), “‘Earth’”).

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apogee (plural apogees)

1. (astronomy) The point in an orbit around the Earth that is most distant from the Earth.
2. (astronomy) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) More generally, the point in an orbit that is most distant from the center.
3. The highest point.
   • 2004 March 22, The New Yorker:

     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.

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• (point in an orbit): apocenter, apoapsis
• (highest point or state): acme, culmination, pinnacle, zenith, climax
• See also Wikisaurus:apex

[edit] Antonyms

• (a point in an orbit): perigee
• (a point in an orbit around the Earth): perigee
• (highest point): nadir, perigee

  perigee is the etymological antonym (from Ancient Greek).

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