satellite
IPA: sˈætʌɫaɪt
noun
- A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.
- A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.
- A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
- (now rare) An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman.
- (colloquial, uncountable) Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that utilize man-made satellite technology.
- (grammar) A grammatical construct that takes various forms and may encode a path of movement, a change of state, or the grammatical aspect. Examples: "a bird flew past"; "she turned on the light".
- (genetics) A very large array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA.
- A community or town dependent on a larger town or city nearby.
verb
- (broadcasting, transitive) To transmit by satellite.
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Examples of "satellite" in Sentences
- The moon is a satellite of the earth.
- The satellite image of Rome is rather reductive.
- Solar satellites are beaming power to the surface.
- It is detectable by satellite anywhere in the world.
- Io is the closest of the Galilean satellites to Jupiter.
- Amalthea is the largest of the inner satellites of Jupiter.
- All of the satellite signals are modulated with the L1 carrier.
- He also contributed to the development of the Proton satellite.
- Hank was involved in the launching of the foreign satellite in China.
- Among the patients is the daughter of head researcher of the satellite.
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