Meaning

• Noun

  1. A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.
  2. A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.
  3. A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
  4. An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman.
  5. (colloquial) Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that use man-made satellite technology.
  6. 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".
  7. A very large array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA.
  8. A community or town dependent on a larger town or city nearby.

• Verb