apogee

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈæpədʒi/

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Noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

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

  perigee is the etymological antonym (from Ancient Greek).

Related terms

• (astronomy): apastron , aphelion

Translations

a point in an orbit around the Earth

Albanian: apogje (sq) Arabic: أوج (ar) ('awj) m. Armenian: երկրահեռ կետ (hy) (erkraheṙ ket) Catalan: apogeu (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 遠地點 (cmn), 远地点 (cmn) (yuǎndìdiǎn) Finnish: apogeum (fi) French: apogée (fr) m.

German: Apogäum (de) n. Irish: apaigí (ga) m. Japanese: 遠地点 (ja) (えんちてん, enchiten) Korean: 원지점 (ko) (wonjijeom) (遠地點 (ko)) Russian: апогей (ru) (apogéj) m. Spanish: apogeo (es) m. Swedish: apogeum (sv) Vietnamese: điểm viễn địa (vi) (點遠地 (vi))

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Latin

Adjective

apogēe

1. vocative masculine singular of apogēus