Lexic.us

Definition of Apogee

1. Noun. A final climactic stage. "Their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development"

2. Noun. Apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth.

Definition of Apogee

1. n. That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth.

Definition of Apogee

1. Noun. (astronomy) The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is furthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter. ¹

2. Noun. (astronomy more generally) The point, in an orbit about any planet, that is farthest from the planet: the apoapsis of any satellite. ¹

3. Noun. (context: perhaps archaic except astrology) The point, in any trajectory of an object in space, where it is furthest from the Earth. ¹

4. Noun. (figuratively) The highest point. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Apogee

1. the point in the orbit of a body which is farthest from the earth [n -S] : APOGEAL, APOGEAN, APOGEIC [adj]

Medical Definition of Apogee

1. 1. That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth. 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. 2. The farthest or highest point; culmination. Origin: Gr. From the earth; from +, earth: cf. F. Apogee. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apogee

apoferments apoferritin apoferritins apofocus apogaeic apogalactic apogalacticon apogametic apogamia apogamic

apogamies apogamous apogeal apogean apogees apogeic apogeotropic apogeotropism apogonid apogonids

apograph apographs apoherm apoherms apohyal apoinducer apoinducers apoise

Literary usage of Apogee

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Complete System of Astronomy by Samuel Vince, Nicolas Louis de La Caille, Tobias Mayer, Franz Xaver Zach, James Bradley (1814)
"This position of the apogee might be determined by making ... 27" from the mean apogee, considering the sun as moving with its mean motion, which will be ..."

2. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton, William Emerson, John Machin (1803)
"... which the inequalities of the motions of the moon's apogee and nodes do generate are to 2° 54' 30" as the mean diurnal motion of the moon's apogee and ..."

3. A Short History of Astronomy by Arthur Berry (1899)
"... and included his most notable discovery—namely, that the direction of the point in the sun's orbit at which it is farthest from the earth (the apogee), ..."

4. Library of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) (1834)
"Let us suppose the two bodies, S, and Si, to be together when the sun is in apogee. As the revolution of the supposed body Si, is completed at the same time ..."

5. A Treatise on Astronomy, Descriptive, Theoretical and Physical, Designed for by Horatio Nelson Robinson (1857)
"... it is said to be in apogee; and penge* and, when nearest to the earth, it is said to be in perigee. The points apogee and perigee, mainly opposite ..."

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