satellitismn.
/ˈsatəlʌɪtɪz(ə)m/, /ˈsatl̩ʌɪtɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈsædlˌaɪˌtɪz(ə)m/ 1. The state or fact of being a satellite (in various senses); (in later use esp.) the condition or fact of a country or state being politically or economically dependent on another (cf. satellite n. 3b); the role of such a dependent country or state.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > direct rule, devolution, or trusteeship > [noun] > satellitism or satellization
satellitism1852
satellization1878
1852 Hogg's Instructor New Ser. 8 385/2 One engrossing young lady..appropriates to herself the whole circle of distinctions..while only the merest mediocrity or satelliteism at best remains for three or four sisters.
1867 Land we Love Nov. 49/2 The minor lights, of course, playing their role of satellitism around the more conspicuous luminaries [in the congregation].
1915 Spencer (Iowa) News 2 Mar. 2/3 So many of our young people..become mere satellites. They revolve around the lives and are subject to the whims of others... Satellitism is quite popular, but most belittling and unworthy.
1945 Internat. Affairs 21 15 Political satellitism is not a new phenomenon.
1962 O. Lattimore Nomads & Commissars viii. 155 Stalin..and Mongolia's loyalty to the Soviet alliance bring up the question of satellitism.
1969 D. Widgery in A. Cockburn & R. Blackburn Student Power 137 Wilson's satellitism to Washington forces an attack on Government spending.
2012 Internat. Jrnl. 67 185 For Canada to play this important leadership role in the world, it must remove the taint of subordination and satellitism by declaring its neutrality.
2. Microbiology. The formation of satellite colonies of bacteria; spec. the formation of colonies (or larger colonies) of one species of bacterium when grown in culture near a different species.
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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > relationships of organisms > [noun] > other interrelationships
syntrophy1897
satellitism1898
phoresy1911
fidelity1932
syntrophism1946
phoresis1951
amensalism1952
1898 Univ. Med. Mag. (Univ. Pennsylvania) Sept. 755 The mechanism of this symbiosis, this cultural satellitism, is obscure.
1921 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 29 179 This phenomenon can easily be differentiated from the satellitism of Pfeiffer's bacillus because the central colony and those clustered about it are the same organism.
1985 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 Sept. 707/2 Non-haemolytic haemophilus colonies were identified by typical appearance and the organism confirmed by Gram stain and satellitism with Staphylococcus aureus.
2012 Avian Dis. 56 360/1 Satellitism was observed using 5% sheep blood agar plates with Staphylococcus hyicus as a feeder colony.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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