apogee
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ap·o·gee /ˈæpədʒiː/ noun [countable] formalSUCCESSFUL the most successful part of something 顶峰，顶点 SYN apex His political career reached its apogee in the 1960s. 20世纪60年代，他的政治生涯达到了顶峰。
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apogee• At apogee its radial velocity reaches zero, so it once again has a purely horizontal velocity.• At any point on the ellipse between apogee and perigee a spacecraft will have both a horizontal and a radial velocity.• It reached its apogee in a 1924 speech to the Royal Society of St George.• At midnight on Friday, December 12,1919, that rocket reached its apogee.Origin apogee (1500-1600) French apogée, from Modern Latin apogaeum, from Greek, from apogaios “far from the earth”, from apo- ( → APOCALYPSE) + ge “earth”ap·o·gee nounChineseSyllable
successful most part of the Corpus something
apogee
ap‧o‧gee /ˈæpədʒiː/
noun [countable]
SYN apex:
His political career reached its apogee in the 1960s.
ap‧o‧gee /ˈæpədʒiː/
noun [countable] Date: 1500-1600
Language: French
Origin: apogée, from Modern Latin apogaeum, from Greek, from apogaios __far from the earth__, from apo- ( ⇨ apocalypse) + ge __earth__
formal the most successful part of something Language: French
Origin: apogée, from Modern Latin apogaeum, from Greek, from apogaios __far from the earth__, from apo- ( ⇨ apocalypse) + ge __earth__
SYN apex: