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Meanings of apogee in English

Portuguese
culminação
Catalan
apogeu
Spanish
culminación

A final climactic stage.

        culminação
        Russian
        апогей
        Portuguese
        apogeu
        Spanish
        apogeo
        Catalan
        apogeu

        The furthest point in an orbit around the Earth.

              апогей
              Usage of apogee in English
              1
              They witnessed the apogee, the decline, and the ruin of the dynasty.
              The Story of Versailles
              2
              He made the important discovery of the motion of the solar apogee.
              A History of Science — Volume 2
              3
              His gift to humanity was an imaginative apogee of form and function.
              Reuters
              4
              This approach reached its apogee in the behaviorism of B. F. Skinner.
              The Red Queen
              5
              But the moon being in her apogee prevents the appearance of this eclipse.
              The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 / A Magaz...
              6
              The second swing our apogee was even higher, the perigee lower.
              Night Shift
              7
              All the Peloponnesus is included in the Achaean League, which attains its apogee.
              The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 / (From the Ris...
              8
              The idea of the fast Ford came to its apogee in the 1980s.
              The Irish Times
              9
              About the Sunday of the Battle of Waterloo they were at their apogee.
              Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)
              10
              The World Cup then was the apogee of football; it is not now.
              The Guardian
              11
              Now at last their long-belated apogee is here; their decline is at hand.
              The Damnation of Theron Ware
              12
              The rejoicing had reached its apogee, and was on the wane.
              The Trail of the Sword, Volume 1
              13
              This was the climax of the prelate's favour, the apogee of his power.
              The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3
              14
              Before the sun hit apogee the edge of the City cleft the horizon.
              The Einstein Intersection
              15
              A nice elliptical orbit, apogee a thousand odd miles, perigee, sixty-seventy-perhaps
              Far from Home
              16
              He was a child when the cult of speed was at its apogee.
              Grand junction
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