satellite
Betekenis
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- 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.
- An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman.
- (colloquial) Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that use man-made satellite technology.
- 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".
- A very large array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA.
- A community or town dependent on a larger town or city nearby.
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Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/ˈsætəlaɪt/
Etymologie
From Middle French satellite, from Latin satelles (“attendant”). Ultimately perhaps of Etruscan origin.
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