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satellite
/ˈsætəˌlaɪt/
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What does satellite mean?
noun
- A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.
- A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data, etc. to Earth.
- A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
More meanings (7)
noun
- Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that use man-made satellite technology.
- A grammatical construct that takes various forms and may encode a path of movement, a change of state, or the grammatical aspect. Examples: "a bird flew past"; "she turned on the light".
- A very large array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA.
- A community or town dependent on a larger town or city nearby.
- (archaic) An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman.
verb
- To transmit by satellite.
- To orbit, like a satellite
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsætəˌlaɪt/
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The inner satellite of Mars and the rings of Saturn make no special difficulty under the planetesimal hypothesis.
This satellite is shut out from view beyond 69 degrees latitude by reason of the curvature of its primary.
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“It is,” said Barbicane, “a simple meteorite, but an enormous one, which the attraction of the earth has retained as a satellite.”
A small disturbance imparted to the satellite will only change the ellipse to a small amount, and so the motion is said to be stable.
His eye followed Sieglinde about the stage like a satellite, and as she sat at the table listening to Siegmund’s long narrative, it never left her.