satellite

IPA: sˈætʌɫaɪt

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.

Examples of "satellite" in Sentences

The satellite beamed down images of Earth from space
The weather satellite predicted heavy rain for the weekend
The satellite dish on the roof allowed us to watch hundreds of channels
Scientists are working on developing a new type of satellite for deep space exploration
The satellite phone saved us when we were stranded in the mountains