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S0096900 (săt′l-īt′) n. 1. An object launched to orbit Earth or another celestial body, as a device for reflecting or relaying radio signals or for capturing images. 2. Astronomy A celestial body, such as a moon, planet, comet, or other solar system body, that orbits a larger body. 3. A small unit in a system or organization that is managed or controlled by a larger, often centrally located unit. 4. A nation dominated politically and economically by another nation. 5. An urban or suburban community located near a big city. 6. a. One who attends a powerful dignitary; a subordinate. b. A subservient follower; a sycophant. 7. Genetics A short segment of a chromosome separated from the rest by a constriction, typically associated with the formation of a nucleolus. 8. Microbiology A colony of microorganisms whose growth in culture medium is enhanced by certain substances produced by another colony in its proximity. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or being a satellite. 2. Of or relating to the transmission of electromagnetic signals by communications satellite: satellite broadcasting; satellite phone.

[French, hanger-on, hireling, from Old French, from Latin satelles, satellit-, originally "armed guard, bodyguard" (probably bearing axes like the fasces of lictors), from Etruscan zaθ-laθ, zaθilaθ, one who carries or strikes with an axe (exact reading in Etruscan inscription uncertain); akin to Etruscan zati zatlχne, for striking with an axe.]

satellite

(ˈsætəˌlaɪt) n1. (Astronomy) a celestial body orbiting around a planet or star: the earth is a satellite of the sun. 2. (Astronomy) Also called: artificial satellite a man-made device orbiting around the earth, moon, or another planet transmitting to earth scientific information or used for communication. See also communications satellite3. a person, esp one who is obsequious, who follows or serves another4. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a country or political unit under the domination of a foreign power5. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a subordinate area or community that is dependent upon a larger adjacent town or city6. (modifier) subordinate to or dependent upon another: a satellite nation. 7. (Telecommunications) (modifier) of, used in, or relating to the transmission of television signals from a satellite to the house: a satellite dish aerial. vb (Telecommunications) (tr) to transmit by communications satellite[C16: from Latin satelles an attendant, probably of Etruscan origin]

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n. 1. a natural body that revolves around a planet; moon. 2. a device designed to be launched into orbit around the earth, another planet, the sun, etc. 3. a country under the domination or influence of another. 4. something that depends on, accompanies, or is subordinate to something else. 5. a place or facility physically separated from but associated with or dependent on another place or facility. 6. an attendant or follower of another person, often subservient or obsequious in manner. adj. 7. of or constituting a satellite. 8. subordinate to another authority, outside power, or the like. [1540–50; < Latin satellit-, s. of satelles attendant]

satelliteCommunications satellites receive, amplify, and transmit radio signals between dish antennas that may be hundreds of miles apart.

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(săt′l-īt′)1. A celestial body that orbits a planet; a moon. See Note at moon.2. An object launched to orbit Earth or another celestial body. Satellites are used for research, communications, weather information, and navigation.

satellite

Past participle: satellited
Gerund: satelliting

Imperative
satellite
satellite

Present
I satellite
you satellite
he/she/it satellites
we satellite
you satellite
they satellite

Preterite
I satellited
you satellited
he/she/it satellited
we satellited
you satellited
they satellited

Present Continuous
I am satelliting
you are satelliting
he/she/it is satelliting
we are satelliting
you are satelliting
they are satelliting

Present Perfect
I have satellited
you have satellited
he/she/it has satellited
we have satellited
you have satellited
they have satellited

Past Continuous
I was satelliting
you were satelliting
he/she/it was satelliting
we were satelliting
you were satelliting
they were satelliting

Past Perfect
I had satellited
you had satellited
he/she/it had satellited
we had satellited
you had satellited
they had satellited

Future
I will satellite
you will satellite
he/she/it will satellite
we will satellite
you will satellite
they will satellite

Future Perfect
I will have satellited
you will have satellited
he/she/it will have satellited
we will have satellited
you will have satellited
they will have satellited

Future Continuous
I will be satelliting
you will be satelliting
he/she/it will be satelliting
we will be satelliting
you will be satelliting
they will be satelliting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been satelliting
you have been satelliting
he/she/it has been satelliting
we have been satelliting
you have been satelliting
they have been satelliting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been satelliting
you will have been satelliting
he/she/it will have been satelliting
we will have been satelliting
you will have been satelliting
they will have been satelliting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been satelliting
you had been satelliting
he/she/it had been satelliting
we had been satelliting
you had been satelliting
they had been satelliting

Conditional
I would satellite
you would satellite
he/she/it would satellite
we would satellite
you would satellite
they would satellite

Past Conditional
I would have satellited
you would have satellited
he/she/it would have satellited
we would have satellited
you would have satellited
they would have satellited

satellite

A spacecraft launched into orbit around the Earth or entering an orbit around some other body in the solar system. Satellites are used for gathering information, intelligence, and for communication. They transmit radio, telephone, and television signals. Constant radio links became possible in 1963.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	satellite - man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moonartificial satellite, orbiterastronomy satellite - a satellite equipped with a telescope to observe infrared radiationcommunications satellite - an artificial satellite that relays signals back to earth; moves in a geostationary orbitequipment - an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a servicesolar array, solar battery, solar panel - electrical device consisting of a large array of connected solar cellsballistic capsule, space vehicle, spacecraft - a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sunspace laboratory, space platform, space station - a manned artificial satellite in a fixed orbit designed for scientific researchsputnik - a Russian artificial satellite; "Sputnik was the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth"spy satellite - a satellite with sensors to detect nuclear explosionsmeteorological satellite, weather satellite - a satellite that transmits frequent picture of the earth below
	2.	satellite - a person who follows or serves anotherplanetfollower - a person who accepts the leadership of another
	3.	satellite - any celestial body orbiting around a planet or starcelestial body, heavenly body - natural objects visible in the skyGalilean satellite, Galilean - one of the four satellites of Jupiter that were discovered by Galileomoon - any natural satellite of a planet; "Jupiter has sixteen moons"
Verb	1.	satellite - broadcast or disseminate via satellitebroadcast, air, transmit, beam, send - broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song"
Adj.	1.	satellite - surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power; "a city and its satellite communities"outer - being on the outside or further from a center; "spent hours adorning the outer man"; "the outer suburbs"

satellite

noun1. spacecraft, communications satellite, sputnik, space capsule The rocket launched two satellites.2. moon, secondary planet the satellites of Jupiter3. colony, dependency, dominion, protectorate Russia and its former satellites

satellite

nounOne who supports and adheres to another:adherent, cohort, disciple, follower, henchman, minion, partisan, supporter.

Translations

卫星人造卫星

satellite

(ˈsӕtəlait) noun1. a smaller body that revolves around a planet. The Moon is a satellite of the Earth.卫星2. a man-made object fired into space to travel round usually the Earth. a weather satellite.人造卫星ˈsatellite dish noun a large circular antenna for receiving TV signals from a satellite. 圆盘式卫星电视天线

satellite

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satellite

1. a celestial body orbiting around a planet or star 2. a man-made device orbiting around the earth, moon, or another planet transmitting to earth scientific information or used for communication 3. a country or political unit under the domination of a foreign power 4. a subordinate area or community that is dependent upon a larger adjacent town or city

satellite

see METROPOLIS-SATELLITE RELATIONSHIP.

Satellite

(religion, spiritualism, and occult)

A satellite is any body that orbits another body. The body being orbited is referred to as the primary. The most familiar examples of satellites are the Moon, a satellite of Earth, and Earth, a satellite of the Sun. This term was originally used to refer to attendants of important people. It was first applied to celestial bodies by Johannes Kepler, who used the term satellite to refer to the moons of Jupiter.

Satellite

in astronomy, a body of the solar system that revolves about a planet under the action of the planet’s gravitational attraction. The four brightest satellites of Jupiter—lo, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto—were, aside from the earth’s moon, the first satellites to be observed. They were discovered by Galileo in 1610. By 1975, 33 satellites of the planets were known: one, the moon, of the earth, two of Mars, 13 of Jupiter, ten of Saturn, five of Uranus, and two of Neptune.

Satellites travel within the gravitational fields of the planets in orbits that differ only slightly in shape from ellipses. The deviations of the actual orbits from elliptical orbits are a result of perturbations caused by the sun’s attraction and by the deviation of the planets’ shapes from a spherical shape. The perturbations that satellites introduce into each other’s orbits can be used to determine the masses of the satellites. The orbital motion of most satellites is direct. In other words, the satellite revolves about the planet in the same direction that the planet revolves about the sun—that is, in a counterclockwise direction when viewed from the north pole of the ecliptic. The only satellites to have retrograde orbits are the satellites VIII, IX, XI, and XII of Jupiter, Saturn’s satellite Phoebe, Uranus’ satellites, and Neptune’s satellite Triton. Table 1 gives the principal data on the known satellites of the planets.

The satellites Phobos and Deimos of Mars are remarkable for their proximity to the planet and their rapid motion. The inner satellite, Phobos, revolves about Mars faster than Mars rotates on its axis, so that an observer on the Martian surface would see the satellite rise in the west and set in the east. Phobos rises and sets twice in a Martian day. Deimos moves across the sky more slowly: more than 2½ days pass between the time the satellite rises above the horizon and the time it sets. Both satellites move almost exactly in the equatorial plane of Mars. In 1972 the Mariner 9 space probe took close photographs of Phobos and Deimos. Both satellites proved to be irregular in shape. Phobos’ dimensions are 27 km × 21 km × 19 km, and those of Deimos are 15 km × 12 km × 11 km; the measurement error here is 0.5–3 km. The geometrical albedo of the Martian satellites does not exceed 0.05—that is, in terms of reflectivity they are comparable to the darkest parts of the lunar maria. Phobos and Deimos are covered with many craters. One crater on Phobos has a diameter of approximately 5.3 km. The craters were undoubtedly formed by impacts.

The four largest satellites of Jupiter—that is, the satellites discovered by Galileo—are comparatively bright objects of the fifth and sixth magnitude. Their orbits are almost circular, and the

Table 1. Satellites of the planets (1975 data)
Planet	Satellite	Mean distance from planet (thousands of km)	Sidereal period of revolution (days)	Eccentricity	Inclination of orbit to planet’s equatorial plane (degrees)	Diameter (km)	Mass (mass of moon = 1)	Year of discovery
Earth	Moon	384.4	27.3	0.055	23.4	3,476	1.00	–
Mars	Phobos	9.4	0.3	0.016	1.1	27	–	1877
	Deimos	23.5	1.3	0.001	1.8	15	–	1877
Jupiter	V	181	0.5	0.003	0.4	220	–	1892
	l lo	422	1.8	0.000	0.0	3,640	0.99	1610
	I I Europa	671	3.6	0.000	0.0	3,100	0.64	1610
	III Ganymede	1,070	7.2	0.001	0.0	5,270	2.11	1610
	IV Callisto	1,880	16.7	0.007	0.0	5,000	1.32	1610
	XIII	11,100	239	0.15	27	–	–	1974
	VI	11,500	251	0.16	28	160	–	1904
	VII	11,750	260	0.21	25	60	–	1905
	X	11,750	260	0.13	29	18	–	1938
	XII	21,000	625	0.17	147	16	–	1951
	XI	22,500	700	0.21	164	22	–	1938
	VIII	23,500	740	0.38	145	16	–	1908
	I X	23,700	755	0.28	153	20	–	1914
Saturn	Janus	160	0.7	0.000	0.0	220	–	1966
	Mimas	186	0.0	0.020	1.5	400	0.001	1789
	Enceladus	238	1.4	0.004	0.0	500	0.001	1789
	Tethys	295	1.9	0.000	1.1	1,000	0.009	1684
	Dione	378	2.7	0.002	0.0	1,150	0.014	1684
	Rhea	528	4.5	0.001	0.4	1,600	0.03	1672
	Titan	1,223	15.9	0.029	0.3	5,000	1.92	1655
	Hyperion	1,484	21.3	0.104	0.4	350	–	1848
	lapetus	3,563	79.3	0.028	14.7	1,800	0.019	1671
	Phoebe	12,950	550.4	0.163	150	300	–	1898
Uranus	Miranda	130	1.4	0.017	3.4	400	–	1948
	Ariel	192	2.5	0.003	0.0	1,400	–	1851
	Umbriel	267	4.1	0.004	0.0	1,000	–	1851
	Titania	439	8.7	0.024	0.0	1,800	–	1787
	Oberon	586	13.5	0.001	0.0	1,600	–	1787
Neptune	Triton	354	5.9	0.000	160	4,000	1.8	1846
	Nereid	5,510	365.0	0.750	28	600	–	1949

planes of their orbits approximately coincide with the plane of the planet’s equator. The first determination of the speed of light was made in 1676 on the basis of observations of the eclipses of these satellites. Ganymede and Callisto are larger than the planet Mercury. For each of the four satellites, the period of rotation is the same as the period of revolution about Jupiter. Consequently, each satellite always presents the same side to the planet. A considerable part of the surfaces of Europa and Ganymede is covered with ice. The Pioneer 10 spacecraft discovered in 1973 that Io has a dense atmosphere. Jupiter’s satellite XIII was discovered in October 1974.

Saturn’s satellite Titan is larger than Mercury. Titan has an atmosphere, which, like the atmosphere of Saturn, contains methane and ammonia. The closest satellite to the planet, Janus, was discovered on Dec. 15,1966, when Saturn’s rings were invisible. This satellite is usually concealed in the halo of the brilliant rings.

The orbital planes of the satellites of Uranus are close to the equatorial plane of the planet. The satellites revolve in the same direction as Uranus rotates. Since, however, the equatorial plane of the planet is tilted at an angle of 98° to the plane of the planet’s orbit, Uranus moves with its satellites as if it were lying on its side.

Neptune’s satellite Triton was discovered in 1846, two weeks after the discovery of the planet. Triton is larger in size and greater in mass than the moon. The other satellite, Nereid, has a highly eccentric orbit. As a result, its distance from the planet varies from 1.5 to 9.6 million km.

Most of the names of the satellites were taken from ancient mythology and works of literature. The satellites of Jupiter discovered by Galileo are also designated by the Roman numerals I, II, III, and IV, in order of increasing distance from Jupiter. Jupiter’s remaining satellites, which were discovered later, are designated by Roman numerals in the chronological order of the satellites’ discovery.

G. A. CHEBOTAREV

What does it mean when you dream about a satellite?

A dream about a satellite is most likely about communication, particularly at a global level. Alternatively, a satellite is something that is trapped by the gravitational pull of another heavenly body.

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[′sad·əl‚īt] (aerospace engineering) artificial satellite (astronomy) A small, solid body moving in an orbit around a planet; the moon is a satellite of earth. (cell and molecular biology) A chromosome segment distant from but attached to the rest of the chromosome by an achromatic filament.

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noun spacecraft

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noun moon

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noun colony

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noun one who supports and adheres to another

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noun man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon

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noun a person who follows or serves another

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noun any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star

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verb broadcast or disseminate via satellite

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adj surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power

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