apogee
noun/ˈæpədʒiː/
/ˈæpədʒiː/
[singular]- (formal) the highest point of something, where it is greatest or most successful
- a religious community that was at its apogee in the twelfth century
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- (astronomy) the point in the orbit of the moon, a planet or other object in space when it is furthest from the planet, for example the earth, around which it turns compare perigee
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French apogée or modern Latin apogaeum, from Greek apogaion (diastēma), ‘(distance) away from earth’, from apo ‘from’ + gaia, gē ‘earth’.
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