Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The point in an orbit around the planet Jupiter where the orbiting body is farthest from the planet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That point in the orbit of a satellite of Jupiter which is furthest from the planet. Airy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun astronomy the spot that is the farthest away from the planet Jupiter in the orbit of each of its own
satellites ;apoapsis aroundJupiter
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun apoapsis in orbit around Jupiter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[apo– + Jove (on the model of apogee).]
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Examples
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The craft is due to enter an elongated orbit about Jupiter, taking 11 days to loop within 4,300 km of Jupiter's equatorial cloud-tops at its low-point, or perijove, and a high-point, or apojove, some 2.7 million km further out, beyond the orbit of Callisto which is the farthest of Jupiter's four main moons.
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When he re-entered Discovery, the ship was far behind the fleeing Leonov and climbing ever more slowly up toward apojove, the high point of its orbit among the outer satellites.
2010 Odyssey Two Clarke, Arthur C. 1982
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