aphelion

Meaning of aphelion

noun
  1. the point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid, or comet at which it is furthest from the sun.
    Mars is at aphelion

mid 17th century: alteration of modern Latin aphelium (by substitution of the Greek inflection -on ), from Greek aph' hēlion ‘from the sun’.

Information about aphelion

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of aphelion is: aphelions.
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Hyphenation of aphelion

aphe-lion

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • aphelion is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of aphelion

Anagrams of aphelion

phelonia, phenolia

Words that rhyme with aphelion

Lion, lion, Akoulalion, Calion, Cedalion, Daedalion, Deucalion, Ereuthalion, Galion, Healion, Nemalion, Pedalion, Pygmalion, battalion, deucalion, pausalion, pygmalion, rascalion, talion, tatterdemalion, vocalion, Redlion, aphidlion, Actelion, Gamelion, Helion, Pantagruelion, Pelion, Thargelion, anthelion, belion, camelion, dandelion, diskelion, epitrachelion, evangelion, obelion, padelion, pantagruelion, paranthelion, parhelion, pedelion, perihelion, pommelion, protevangelion, selion, tetraskelion, thelion, triskelion, werelion

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