Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or connected with the apogee: as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee. Also
apogeic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Connected with the apogee.
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- adjective Connected with the
apogee .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or characteristic of an apogee
Etymologies
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Examples
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Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, though an apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities, to vanities of vanities and to all that is vanity.
Ulysses 2003
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His head was back as if his throat were open to the stroke of her words, but there was that growing in his face which was enormous, translucent, even apogean.
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Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, though an apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities, to vanities of vanities and to all that is vanity.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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