Definitions for apogee

apogee ap·o·gee

Spelling: [ap-uh-jee]
IPA: /ˈæp əˌdʒi/

Apogee is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in apogee (aeegop).

Definitions for apogee

noun

  1. Astronomy. the point in the orbit of a heavenly body, especially the moon, or of a man-made satellite at which it is farthest from the earth. Compare perigee.
  2. the highest or most distant point; climax.

Origin of apogee

1585-95; alteration (after French apogée) of earlier apogaeum Latin Greek apógaion (diástema) off-earth (distance), neuter of apógaios (adj.), equivalent to apo- apo-

Examples for apogee

The acquisition of this soul marks the apogee of the greatness of a people.

We missed the apogee of the hippie revolution becoming something more serious.

This was the climax of the prelate's favour, the apogee of his power.

The second measures the distance of the sun from its apogee.

Winehouse laid down the track in her attic studio in 2009, at the apogee of her hard-partying ways.

The apogee of the sun is synonymous with the aphelion of the earth.

An irregularity in the motion of a planet by which it deviates from the aphelion or apogee.

His tiny talent reached its apogee in 'The Rape of the Lock.'

It reaches its apogee in Bodrum, since nowhere in Turkey is the produce and seafood fresher or more abundant.

The apogee of all this dressing came on December 23, 1908, when he formed The Mark Twain Corporation.

Word Value for apogee
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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