apogee has definitions from the field of astronomy
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[ noun ] a final climactic stage

Synonyms

culmination

Examples

"their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development"

Used in print

(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)

Although it is not possible to sunder old and new in this era , I shall consider in the present chapter primarily the first decades of the eighth century and shall interpret them as an apogee of the first stage of Greek civilization .

Related terms

phase culminate

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[ noun ] (astronomy) apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth

Related terms

perigee apoapsis

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