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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A geostationary orbit.
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- noun Military A satellite
orbit where the orbitalperiod is equal to, or multiples of, the Earth’s rotational period; i.e. making one, two, three, etc., orbits in a 24-hour period.
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