APOAPSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apoapsis mean? 

• APOAPSIS (noun)
  The noun APOAPSIS has 1 sense:

1. (astronomy) the point in an orbit farthest from the body being orbited

  Familiarity information: APOAPSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APOAPSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(astronomy) the point in an orbit farthest from the body being orbited

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

apoapsis; point of apoapsis

Hypernyms ("apoapsis" is a kind of...):

celestial point (a point in the heavens (on the celestial sphere))

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apoapsis"):

apogee (apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth)

aphelion (apoapsis in solar orbit; the point in the orbit of a planet or comet that is at the greatest distance from the sun)

apojove (apoapsis in orbit around Jupiter)

apolune; aposelene (apoapsis in orbit around the moon)

Holonyms ("apoapsis" is a part of...):

celestial orbit; orbit (the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another)

Antonym:

periapsis ((astronomy) the point in an orbit closest to the body being orbited)