See apogee on Wiktionary
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"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2002, Serge Brunier, Solar System Voyage, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 36:",
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"ref": "2010, Ruth WalkerMary M. Shaffreyet al., Exploring Space: The High Frontier, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 129:",
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"ref": "1979, Carl Deroux, editor, Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History [Collection Latomus; 164], volume 1, Brussels: Latomus, →OCLC, page 111:",
"text": "Another manifestation, significantly reaching its apogee in the midst of Antonine virtues, was the growing popularity of adoxographical exercises. Mock panegyrics were dashed off, not just by sardonic intellectuals such as Lucian, but also by trained courtiers and polished encomiasts of the stamp of [Marcus Cornelius] Fronto.",
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"ref": "2004 March 22, The New Yorker:",
"text": "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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"ref": "2014 September 15, Martin Gayford, “There's more to Ming than a vase [print version: 16 August 2014, pp. R6–R7]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):",
"text": "The apogee of Ming China […] came in the half century following his [the Hongwu Emperor's] death. Of this period, the initial two decades were dominated by his son, the Yongle emperor (1360–1424), who was a much more successful Oriental version of Richard III.",
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"The highest point."
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"(figuratively) The highest point."
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"sense": "point in an orbit",
"word": "apocenter"
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"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"word": "apogje"
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"code": "hy",
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"roman": "erkraheṙ ket",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"word": "երկրահեռ կետ"
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"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"word": "遠地點"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "yuǎndìdiǎn",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"word": "远地点"
},
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"word": "apogeo"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"tags": [
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
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"masculine"
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"word": "apoxeo"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
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"neuter"
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"word": "Apogäum"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apógeio",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "απόγειο"
},
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"code": "grc",
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"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
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},
{
"code": "hi",
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"roman": "apbhū",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"word": "अपभू"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "apaigí"
},
{
"alt": "えんちてん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "enchiten",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"word": "遠地点"
},
{
"alt": "遠地點",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "wonjijeom",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"word": "원지점"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
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{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"word": "apogi"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "afijun",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"word": "افیجون"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "âpozem",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"word": "آپوزم"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "owj",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"word": "اوج"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "apogeum"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
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"neuter"
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},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "apogéj",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
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},
{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
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},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
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},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"word": "higlayo sa Duta"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
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},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"word": "apoheo"
},
{
"code": "ta",
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"roman": "cēyppuḷḷi",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"word": "சேய்ப்புள்ளி"
},
{
"code": "uk",
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"roman": "apohéj",
"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"alt": "點遠地",
"code": "vi",
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"sense": "a point in an orbit around the Earth",
"word": "điểm viễn địa"
}
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