apogee
/app jee/ • noun 1 Astronomy the point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is furthest from the earth. The opposite of PERIGEE. 2 a culmination or climax. — ORIGIN from Greek apogaion diastema, ‘distance away from earth’.
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