- 1(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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- 2(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
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