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English

Etymology

From Middle French satellite, from Latin satelles (“attendant”). Ultimately perhaps of Etruscan origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sæt?la?t/

Noun

satellite (plural satellites)

1. A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one. [from 17th c.]

2. A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth. [from 20th c.]

   Many telecommunication satellites orbit at 36000km above the equator.

3. A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body. [from 19th c.]
4. (now rare) An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman. [from 16th c.]
   • 1826, Walter Scott, Woodstock, p.348:

     […] 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 […].

   • 1948, Willard E. Hawkins, The Technique of Fiction: A Basic Course in Story Writing, p.169:

     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 […].

5. (colloquial, uncountable) Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that utilize man-made satellite technology. [from 20th c.]

   Do you have satellite at your house?

6. (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".

Usage notes

• The man-made telecommunication objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon.

Synonyms

• (artificial orbital body): sat (abbreviation)

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• intersatellite

Related terms

Translations

See also

• (moon of Earth) Luna/?Moon/?moon ^[edit]
• (moons of Mars) Phobos, Deimos
• (moons of Jupiter) Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, Thebe, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Themisto, Leda, Himalia, Lysithea, Elara, Euporie, Thelxinoe, Euanthe, Helike, Orthosie, Iocaste, Praxidike, Harpalyke, Mneme, Hermippe, Thyone, Ananke, Herse, Aitne, Kale, Taygete, Chaldene, Erinome, Aoede, Kallichore, Kalyke, Carme, Callirrhoe, Eurydome, Pasithee, Kore, Cyllene, Eukelade, Pasiphaë, Hegemone, Arche, Isonoe, Sinope, Sponde, Autonoe, Megaclite
• (moons of Saturn) Pan, Daphnis, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Epimetheus, Janus, Aegaeon, Mimas, Methone, Anthe, Pallene, Enceladus, Tethys, Telesto, Calypso, Dione, Helene, Polydeuces, Rhea, Titan, Hyperyon, Iapetus, Kiviuq, Ijiraq, Phoebe, Paaliaq, Skathi, Albiorix, Bebhionn, Erriapus, Skoll, Siamaq, Tarqeq, Greip, Hyrrokin, Jarnsaxa, Tarvos, Mundilfari, Bergelmir, Narvi, Suttungr, Hati, Farbauti, Thrymr, Aegir, Bestla, Fenrir, Surtur, Kari, Ymir, Loge, Fornjot
• (moons of Uranus) Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Cupid, Belinda, Perdita, Puck, Mab, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, Francisco, Caliban, Stephano, Trinculo, Sycorax, Margaret, Prospero, Setebos, Ferdinand
• (moons of Neptune) Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Proteus, Triton, Nereid, Halimede, Sao, Laomedeia, Psamathe, Neso
• (moons of Pluto) Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, Hydra
• (moons of Haumea) Namaka, Hi?iaka
• (moons of Eris) Dysnomia

Verb

satellite (third-person singular simple present satellites, present participle satelliting, simple past and past participle satellited)

1. (broadcasting, transitive) To transmit by satellite.
   • 1997, Alvin A. Snyder, Warriors of Disinformation (page 160)

     It had to speed up its efforts to participate in the international satellite television market. In the summer of 1986 it began satelliting TV programs to Africa, and in early 1987, to Asia and twenty countries in Latin America […]

Anagrams

• telestial

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin satellitem (accusative singular of satelles).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.t?.lit/, /sa.te.lit/

Noun

satellite m (plural satellites)

1. satellite (moon or other celestial body)
2. satellite (man-made apparatus)

Adjective

satellite (plural satellites)

1. satellite, from or relating to a satellite (man-made apparatus)
   • 2013, Jean-Noël Marien, Émilien Dubiez, Dominique Louppe, Adélaïde Larzillière, Quand la ville mange la forêt: les défis du bois-énergie en Afrique centrale, page 45, ?ISBN

     Le couvert végétal du basin d’approvisionnement en bois-énergie de la ville de Kinshasa a été cartographié par images satellites

Derived terms

• image satellite

Related terms

• satellisation
• satelliser

Further reading

• “satellite” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From Latin satelles (“attendant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?t?l.li.te/

Noun

satellite m (plural satelliti)

1. satellite

Adjective

satellite (invariable)

1. (relational) satellite

Related terms

Anagrams

• allestite

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sa?tel.li.te/, [s?ä?t??l???t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa?tel.li.te/, [s??t??l?it??]

Noun

satellite

1. ablative singular of satelles

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin satellitem, accusative singular of satelles.

Noun

satellite m (plural satellites)

1. (military, Antiquity) a guard or watchman

Descendants

• English: satellite
• French: satellite

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (satellite, supplement)

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

satellite f (plural satellites)

1. (Jersey) satellite

Derived terms

• bolle à satellite (“satellite dish”)
• télévîsion dé satellite (“satellite television”)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin apert?ra (“opening”), from apertus, past participle of aper?re (“to open, uncover”), opposed to oper?re (“to close, cover”). See aperient. Doublet of overture.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æp.?.t??(?)/, /?æp.?.tj??(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æp.?.t??/
• Hyphenation: ap?er?ture

Noun

aperture (plural apertures)

1. A small or narrow opening, gap, slit, or hole.
   • 1860, Samuel Hannaford, Sea and River-side Rambles in Victoria Chapter 7

     In the centre of the fleshy membrane is an aperture leading into a deep cavity, at the bottom of which is placed a prominent piston that may be retracted by muscular fibres provided for the purpose.
2. (optics) Something which restricts the diameter of the light path through one plane in an optical system.
3. (astronomy, photography) The diameter of the aperture (in the sense above) which restricts the width of the light path through the whole system. For a telescope, this is the diameter of the objective lens.

4. (spaceflight, communication) The (typically) large-diameter antenna used for receiving and transmitting radio frequency energy containing the data used in communication satellites, especially in the geostationary belt. For a comsat, this is typically a large reflective dish antenna; sometimes called an array.
5. (mathematics, rare, of a right circular cone) The maximum angle between the two generatrices.

   If the generatrix makes an angle ? to the axis, then the aperture is 2?.

Usage notes

The aperture of microscopes is often expressed in degrees, called also the angular aperture, which signifies the angular breadth of the pencil of light which the instrument transmits from the object or point viewed; as, a microscope of 100° aperture.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• aperture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• aperture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin apert?ra (“opening”). Doublet of ouverture.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.p??.ty?/

Noun

aperture f (uncountable)

1. (phonetics, phonology) opening, openness, aperture

Related terms

• apéritif
• ouvrir

Further reading

• “aperture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Noun

aperture f

1. plural of apertura

Anagrams

• reputare
• reputerà

Latin

Participle

apert?re

1. vocative masculine singular of apert?rus

Spanish

Verb

aperture

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of aperturar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of aperturar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of aperturar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of aperturar.