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   apogee

   /ˈapədʒiː/

   noun

   • 1. the highest point in the development of something; a climax or culmination: "a film which was the apogee of German expressionist cinema"
   • 2. the point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is furthest from the earth.

   Word Origin late 16th century: from French apogée or modern Latin apogaeum, from Greek apogaion (diastēma), ‘(distance) away from earth’, from apo ‘from’ + gaia, gē ‘earth’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. apogean adjective

   Scrabble Points: 9

   • A

     1

   • P

     3

   • O

     1

   • G

     2

   • E

     1

   • E

     1

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