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What is an apogee?

What is an apogee? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (astronomy) The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is furthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter.
  2. (astronomy) The point, in an orbit about any planet, that is farthest from the planet: the apoapsis of any satellite.
  3. (possibly archaic outside astrology) The point, in any trajectory of an object in space, where it is furthest from the Earth.
  4. (figuratively) The highest point.
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But the orbit is elliptical, and when the Moon is near perigee, it moves along its orbit more swiftly than it does when it is near apogee.
The Last Supper, or a mere carouse as Ivan had called it, came to the apogee.
Despite all the glories that came later, the show suggests that this was the apogee of New York, and it's hard to disagree.
It is, after all, easy to forget that guitar-groups reached their apogee during the last years of Tory rule.
He had believed that the assumption of immortality through religion was the apogee of man's greed.
Static information such as semi-major axis of ellipse, apogee and perigee altitudes, and anomalistic and nodal periods of satellite orbits.

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