apogee

Meaning of apogee

noun
  1. the highest point in the development of something; a climax or culmination.
    a film which was the apogee of German expressionist cinema
  2. the point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is furthest from the earth.

late 16th century: from French apogée or modern Latin apogaeum, from Greek apogaion (diastēma), ‘(distance) away from earth’, from apo ‘from’ + gaia, gē ‘earth’.

Information about apogee

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of apogee is: apogees.
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Hyphenation of apogee

apogee

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • apogee is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

apogee synonyms

Meaning culmination:

culmination

Translation of apogee

Words that rhyme with apogee

ogee, Muscogee, Muskogee, muskogee, soogee, hypogee, interrogee, subrogee, yogee

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