satellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsætəlaɪt/
Forms: form: satellites
Etymology: From Middle French satellite, from Latin satelles (“attendant”). Ultimately perhaps of Etruscan origin.
Senses: examples: text: The Moon is a natural satellite of the Earth.
text: A spent upper stage is a derelict satellite.
glosses: A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.
examples: text: Many telecommunication satellites orbit at 36000km above the equator.
glosses: A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.
glosses: A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
examples: text: We read in the Bible, that Nicanor the persecutor of Gods Law[…]sent his Satellites to apprehend the good old man Rasias[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: […]he would nevertheless have a better bargain of this tall satellite if they settled the debate betwixt them in the forest[…]. Betwixt anxiety, therefore, vexation, and anger, Charles faced suddenly round on his pursuer[…].
ref: 1826, Woodstock, Walter Scott, page 348:
text: The unnamed chronicler in his Dupin stories was the first Dr. Watson type of satellite—a narrator who accompanies the detective on his exploits, exclaims over his brilliance[…].
ref: 1948, Willard E. Hawkins, The Technique of Fiction: A Basic Course in Story Writing, page 169:
glosses: An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman.
examples: text: Do you have satellite at your house?
glosses: Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that use man-made satellite technology.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: 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".
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A very large array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA.
examples: text: Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land.
ref: 1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:
glosses: A community or town dependent on a larger town or city nearby.
Synonyms: sense: artificial orbital body
word: sat
Hyponyms: anti-satellite
femtosatellite
fixed satellite
microsatellite
minisatellite
nanosatellite
picosatellite
quasi-satellite
quasisatellite
space satellite
spy satellite
Derived terms: adenosatellite
alphasatellite
antisatellite
artificial satellite
betasatellite
biosatellite
communications satellite
deltasatellite
direct broadcast satellite
Dyson-Harrop satellite
geosatellite
hypersatellite
INMARSAT
intersatellite
intrasatellite
macrosatellite
megasatellite
myosatellite
power satellite
presatellite
protosatellite
satellect
satellitary
satellite assembly
satellite broadcasting
satellite bus
satellite campus
satellite cell
satellite city
satellite dish
satellite DNA
satellite fly
satellite-framed
satellite-framing
satellite hit
satellite image
satellite link
satellite moth
satellite navigation
satellite navigation system
satellite operation
satellite party
satellite phone
satellite planet
satellitesimal
satellite sphinx
satellite state
satellite station
satellite team
satellite telephone
satellite television
satellite tenant
satellite town
satellite TV
satellite vein
satellitism
satellitome
satellitosis
satelloid
satnav
shepherd satellite
statite
subsatellite
sub-satellite
telesatellite
via-satellite
weather satellite
Related terms: sense: Earth's sole moon
word: Moon
sense: moons of Mars
word: Phobos
word: Deimos
sense: moons of Haumea
word: Namaka
word: Hiʻiaka
sense: moon of Eris
word: Dysnomia