Crossword clues for apogee
apogee
- High point of a river: wow!
- Top drugs and crack the old man sent up
- The culmination of an attempt to get up in one go
- Ultimate height of a river that amazes me
- Orbit part
- Farthest orbital point from earth
- Celestial point
- Farthest orbit point
- Top of the orbit
- Highest orbital point
- Far point in an orbit
- Point on an orbit
- Point of maximum Earth-moon separation
- Orbital maximum
- Maximum altitude
- This is far out
- Sputnik stat
- Satellite stat
- Satellite position
- Roughly 251,655 miles, for Earth's moon
- Point of moon's orbit farthest from Earth
- Point in orbit of celestial body farthest from earth
- Point in a repeated route
- Outermost orbital point
- Orbit's most distant point
- Orbit high point
- Orbit feature
- Lunar orbital point
- Lunar orbit apex
- Highest point in a satellite's orbit
- High point of an orbit
- Furthest orbital point from the earth
- Furthest orbital point
- Flight extreme
- Farthest point in a satellite's orbit
- Farthest point in an orbit
- Orbital high point
- High point in an orbit
- Highest point in an orbit
- Orbital far point
- High point for Sputnik
- Orbital point farthest from Earth
- Orbital extreme
- Peak
- Most distant point in an orbit
- Farthest point of a 50-Down
- Zenith
- Nadir's opposite
- The point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth
- Apoapsis in Earth orbit
- A final climactic stage
- Summit
- Culmination
- It's all downhill from here
- Highest point of orbit
- Apex
- The highest point
- Orbit point
- Moon's farthest point from earth
- Highest or farthest point
- Orbital extremity
- Orbital feature
- Climax
- Culmination, climax
- Culmination of attempt to pursue secretary brought about by drugs
- Orbit's furthest point
- A planetoid's orbit getting excessively extended, primarily here?
- Primate admitting self-elevation is the highest point
- Highest position of a Personnel Officer — that’s surprising!
- High point of copy that Self must turn in
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apogee \Ap"o*gee\, n. [Gr. ? from the earth; ? from + ?, ?, earth: cf. F. apog['e]e.]
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(Astron.) That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth.
Note: Formerly, on the hypothesis that the earth is in the center of the system, this name was given to that point in the orbit of the sun, or of a planet, which was supposed to be at the greatest distance from the earth.
Fig.: The farthest or highest point; culmination.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"point at which the moon is farthest from the earth," 1590s, from French apogée, from Latin apogaeum, from Greek apogaion, neuter adjective, "away from the earth," a term from Ptolemaic astronomy, from apo "off, away" (see apo-) + gaia/ge "earth" (see Gaia). Adjective forms are apogeal, apogean.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context astronomy English) The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is furthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter. 2 (context astronomy more generally English) The point, in an orbit about any planet, that is farthest from the planet: the apoapsis of any satellite. 3 (context possibly archaic outside astrology English) The point, in any trajectory of an object in space, where it is furthest from the Earth. 4 (context figuratively English) The highest point.
WordNet
n. a final climactic stage; "their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development" [syn: culmination]
apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth [ant: perigee]
Wikipedia
Apogee, or more formally apsis, is the point, in an elliptical Earth orbit, of greatest distance from the Earth. Ballistic apogee is the highest altitude in the trajectory of a projectile.
Apogee may also refer to:
Apogee is the second full-length album by stoner metal band Bongzilla. The album was released in May 2000 by Ritual Records, and re-released in 2004 by Relapse Records. It contains three songs recorded in the studio and four recorded at a live concert.
Usage examples of "apogee".
One emblematic evening I watched Franklin pump to apogee and bail out, no doubt escaping one of those avuncular Flying Fortresses on a parachute that thighs sacrificed their stocking silks for.
When the tide of life beats high in two mortals, and they meet in the moment of its apogee, when all the nature is sweeping on without command, guilelessly, yet thoughtlessly, the mere lilt of existence lulling to sleep wisdom and tried experience--speculation points all one way.
Still he held on and if he could have strengthened his grip he might have lived for ever, but when the sapling reached its apogee it suddenly and treacherously reversed its direction.
As soon as the overhead door reached its apogee, the driverless vehicle began to give off high-pitched, intermittent beeps as it rolled forward in a thunderous, jerky fashion.
With a flourish, Sullivan waved his arm at Apogee II, which looked less like a rocket plane and more like a fat fireplug with windows.
With Duerer and Holbein German art reached its apogee in the first half of the sixteenth century, yet their work was not different in spirit from that of their predecessors.
Outside, the baking New Mexico sun was at its apogee and the old predark thermometer nailed to the shaded wall of the veranda was registering one hundred eighteen degrees.
Nonetheless, Crispus was approaching that age which in these southern lands was held to be the apogee of splendour.
There was nothing to do now but wait until they caught up to the target when it swung back in close to Earth from the apogee of its orbit.
Cynthia Murray was therefore directing operations at the AstroLab when POSIM-38 reached its apogee, a little more than an hour later, and began to fall back toward Earth.
The armor, however, fell away after firing, and the round tracked upward and then over at apogee, after which the tracking system lost lock and the round became an unknown actor.
The curve attains its apogee at the end of October in the same year, then falls rapidly, and finally flattens off at its springtime level.
New London followed a slightly elliptical orbit high above the Earth, with an apogee of forty-five thousand kilometres and a perigee of forty-two thousand kilometres.
Or if learned, on nodes and the moon’s apogees, Or, if serious, on something of AKHB’s, Or the latest attempt to convert the Chaldees.
Dill observed, rather unexpectedly, that had TX worked out, it might have brought peace to the world and not annihilation, because it would have put an end to the doctrine of DEW ("distant early warning"), which was based on the interval of time between the firing of the offender's intercontinental rockets and their appearance on the defender's radar screens at the apogees of suborbital flight.