Definitions for apogees

apogees ap·o·gee

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

Apogees is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in apogees (aeegops).

Definitions for apogees

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 apogees

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 apogees

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

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

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

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.'

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

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

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

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.

Word Value for apogees
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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