apogée

See also: apogee

French

Etymology

Via (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin apogaeum, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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)

Antonyms

• périgée

Further reading

• “apogée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.