Definitions for perigee

perigee per·i·gee

Spelling: [per-i-jee]
IPA: /ˈpɛr ɪˌdʒi/

Perigee is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in perigee (eeegipr).

Definitions for perigee

noun

  1. the point in the orbit of a heavenly body, especially the moon, or of an artificial satellite at which it is nearest to the earth.

Origin of perigee

1585-95; French perigée New Latin perigēum, perigaeum Greek perígeion (sēmeîon limit), neuter of perígeios near, of the earth, equivalent to peri- peri- + -geios, adj

Examples for perigee

It now has a perigee slightly below 110 miles and an apogee of about 400 miles.

On the longitude of the perigee of the lunar orbit at the time.

A nice elliptical orbit, apogee a thousand odd miles, perigee, sixty-seventy—perhaps.

An Anomalistic month is the time in which the moon passes from perigee to perigee, &c.

perigee was south of Singapore on the last two passes, but so low I doubt if they got any clear sightings.

The lowest index, fitted with a single pointer, indicates the motion of the moon from its apogee or perigee.

An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.

That point of the moon's orbit which is furthest from the earth; the opposite of perigee.

perigee, the point in the orbit of the moon or a planet nearest the earth.

The Moon, with regard to the Earth, is similarly in her perigee, and her apogee.

Word Value for perigee
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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