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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