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- DictionarySat·el·lite/ˈsadlˌīt/
noun
- 1. an artificial body placed in orbit around the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication: "a communications satellite"
- 2. a celestial body orbiting the earth or another planet.
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1. a. : a celestial body orbiting another of larger size. b. : a manufactured object or vehicle intended to orbit the earth, the moon, or another celestial body. 2. : someone or something attendant, subordinate, or dependent. especially : a country politically and economically dominated or controlled by another more powerful country. 3.
SATELLITE definition: 1. a device sent up into space to travel around the earth, used for collecting information or…. Learn more.
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1540s, \"follower or attendant of a superior person,\" from Middle French satellite (14c.), from Latin satellitem (nominative satelles) \"attendant, companion, courtier, accomplice, assistant,\" perhaps from Etruscan satnal (Klein), or a compound of roots *satro- \"full, enough\" + *leit- \"to go\" (Tucker); cf. English follow, which is constructed...
In politics, a nation that is dominated politically by another. The Warsaw Pact nations, other than the former Soviet Union itself, were commonly called satellites of the Soviet Union.
In astronomy, an object, whether natural (such as the moon) or artificial (such as a weather observation satellite), that revolves around a central body. (See under World Politics.)
Any object in orbit about some body capable of exerting a gravitational (see gravitation) force. Artificial satellites in orbit around the Earth have many uses, including relaying communication signals, making accurate surveys and inventories of the Earth's surface and weather patterns, and carrying out scientific experiments.
SATELLITE meaning: 1. a device sent up into space to travel around the earth, used for collecting information or…. Learn more.
SATELLITE meaning: 1 : an object (such as a moon) that moves around a much larger planet; 2 : a machine that is sent into space and that moves around the earth, moon, sun, or a planet often used before another noun.
satellite. noun. /ˈsætəlaɪt/. /ˈsætəlaɪt/. an electronic device that is sent into space and moves around the earth or another planet. It is used for communicating by radio, television, etc. and for gathering information. a weather/communications/spy satellite.
a piece of equipment that is sent into space around the Earth to receive and send signals or to collect information: a spy / weather satellite. satellite noun [C] (SPACE) a natural object that moves around a planet in space: The moon is the Earth's satellite.
