perigee : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: perigee	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
perigee n periapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is nearest to the Earth Antonym(s): apogee
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Perigee \Per"igee\, Perigeum \Per`ige"um\, n. [NL. perigeum, fr. Gr. [?] about, near + [?] the earth: cf. F. p[82]rig[82]e.] (Astron.) That point in the orbit of the moon which is nearest to the earth; -- opposed to {apogee}. It is sometimes, but rarely, used of the nearest points of other orbits, as of a comet, a planet, etc. Called also {epigee}, {epigeum}.