satellite

Plural: satellites

Noun

• man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon
• a person who follows or serves another
• any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star
• A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.
• A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.
• A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
• An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman.
• Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that use man-made satellite technology.
• A grammatical construct that takes various forms and may encode a path of movement, a change of state, or the grammatical aspect. Examples: "a bird flew past"; "she turned on the light".
• A very large array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA.
• A community or town dependent on a larger town or city nearby.

Verb

• broadcast or disseminate via satellite
• To transmit by satellite.

Adjective Satellite

• surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power
  • "a city and its satellite communities"

Examples

• A spent upper stage is a derelict satellite.
• Do you have satellite at your house?
• Many telecommunication satellites orbit at 36000km above the equator.
• The Moon is a natural satellite of the Earth.

Synonyms

artificial satellite, orbiter, planet, sat

Related Words

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