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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
apogee /ˈapədʒiː/

▶noun

1 the culmination or climax of something.

2 Astronomy the point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is furthest from the earth. The opposite of perigee.

– origin C16: from Fr. apogée or mod. L. apogaeum, from Gk apogaion (diastēma), ‘(distance) away from earth’.

'apogee' also found in these Oxford entries:

apolune - perigee

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