单词	apogee
释义	apogeeap‧o‧gee /ˈæpədʒiː/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINapogee Origin: 1500-1600 French apogée, from Modern Latin apogaeum, from Greek, from apogaios ‘far from the earth’, from apo- ( ➔ APOCALYPSE) + ge ‘earth’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS At apogee its radial velocity reaches zero, so it once again has a purely horizontal velocity. At any point on the ellipse between apogee and perigee a spacecraft will have both a horizontal and a radial velocity. At midnight on Friday, December 12, 1919, that rocket reached its apogee. It reached its apogee in a 1924 speech to the Royal Society of St George. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► reach · It reached its apogee in a 1924 speech to the Royal Society of St George.· At midnight on Friday, December 12, 1919, that rocket reached its apogee.· In terms of artistic production the city of Paris reached its apogee between 1250 and 1330.· Crazy logic had reached the ultimate apogee of absurdity - or perhaps not quite.· Transportation systems have a habit of being overtaken by new technology even as they reach their apogee. formal the most successful part of something SYN  apex:  His political career reached its apogee in the 1960s.
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