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▸ noun: A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.
▸ noun: A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
▸ noun: (now rare) An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman.
▸ noun: (colloquial, uncountable) Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that use man-made satellite technology.
▸ noun: (grammar) 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".
▸ noun: (genetics) A very large array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA.
▸ noun: A community or town dependent on a larger town or city nearby.
▸ verb: (broadcasting, transitive) To transmit by satellite.
Similar:
planet,
outer,
artificial satellite,
geostationary,
geosynchronous,
telecommand,
downlink,
COMSATS,
terrestrial,
aerial,
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geostationary,
geosynchronous,
low earth orbit,
high earth orbit,
solar-powered,
artificial,
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