apogée

See also: apogee

English

Noun

apogée (plural apogées)

1. Alternative spelling of apogee.
   • 1781 August [1780 May 17], [Jean Henri] Van Swinden, “Art[icle] III. Extract of a Letter to Father Cotte, Priest of the Oratory, Curate of Montmorenci, and Correspondent Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, concerning a curious Astronomical Machine, &c. &.c”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal: […], volume LXV, London: […] R[alph] Griffiths: And Sold by T[homas] Becket, […], page 152:

     The diſtance of the Moon from her Apogée.

   • 1989, Peter Mathias, Sidney Pollard, editors, The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, volume VIII (The Industrial Economies: The Development of Economic and Social Policies), Cambridge, Cambs.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page viii:

     The apogée of economic liberalism, 1870–1914

   • 1992, Ross Burns, Monuments of Syria: An Historical Guide, London: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, →ISBN, page 164, column 2:

     The arch was erected under Septimius Severus (r 193–211), more or less the apogée of Palmyra’s prosperity when extensive civic improvements were undertaken in the city.

   • 2001, Samuel Willard Crompton, Michael J. Rhein, The Ultimate Book of Lighthouses: History, Legend, Lore, Design, Technology, Romance, San Diego, Calif.: Thunder Bay Press, →ISBN, page 12, column 1:

     Built to function as a light, a chapel and a royal residence, the tower stood for many years as the apogée of lighthouse development.

   • 2002, Charles Freeman, The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, published 2003, →ISBN, page 66:

     It seems appropriate to refer to the work of Ptolemy in astronomy (his period of most intense work in Alexandria took place between a.d. 127 and 141) as marking the apogée of the science.

   • 2022, Ahmet Davutoğlu, translated by Andrew Boord, “Pivot cities founded by a civilization: The rise of cities as political centers after the formation of a civilizational paradigm”, in Pivot Cities in the Rise and Fall of Civilizations (Innovations in International Affairs), Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, part II (The role of pivot cities in the history of civilizations):

     The monumental structures rebuilt in Indian cities by Mughal rulers became the most important examples of the synthesis between Turkish, Mongol, and Iranian legacies on the lands of Indian civilization under the umbrella of Islamic civilization. The apogée of this great synthesis is the Taj Mahal, its unique genius contained within its own esthetic structure, constructed in Agra during the reign of Shah Jahan.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin apogaeum, from Ancient Greek ἀπόγειον (apógeion, “away from Earth”), from ἀπό (apó, “away”) + γῆ (gê, “Earth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pɔ.ʒe/

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Noun

apogée m (plural apogées)

1. (astronomy) apogee (a point in an orbit around the Earth)

   Antonym: périgée

Further reading

• “apogée” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “apogée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Paronyms

• hypogée