(n.) That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth.
(n.) Fig.: The farthest or highest point; culmination.
Example Sentences:
(1) The apogee, for me, is his book Terra Nullius , a 2005 Australia travelogue that indicts Britons and white Australians for terrible abuses such as the transportation of Aborigine women to the chillingly named Isle of the Dead where they were given inappropriate and often fatal syphilis treatment, and the extensive forced separation of "half-blood" children from their families to prison-like camps.
(2) From a test flight perspective, I’m less focused on the apogee, although the outside world is focused on the apogee.
(3) All this reached its apogee in 1987, with the sleeve art for Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason .
(4) A well pad sits only a couple hundred feet from Apogee Stadium, home of the university’s Mean Green football team.
(5) Whitesides’ comments two weeks ago made it clear that thermal protection, and not the height – or apogee – reached by the craft, was his main concern.
(6) For Britons reared on the Churchillian narrative, for Americans who crossed the Atlantic to save Europe from Nazi barbarism, for Russians who see the defeat of Hitler as their finest moment, and most of all, for Jews to whom the Holocaust represents the apogee of evil, Ozols' position may seem perverse.
(7) It has been found that in the mature female carp in the pre-spawning period with the light periods being long (L:D = 16:8) the apogee for gonadotropin occurs 10 hr after the onset of the light period.
(8) Michael Jackson dead was the scoop of a lifetime for any media outlet, and the apogee of the four-year-old celebrity-obsessed site that boasts its snippets are "even more fascinating than the hype".
(9) Conservative ideas of fairness are sometimes cast as "fair dues"; the success of David Davis, son of a single parent raised on a council estate, is cited as its apogee.
(10) Onset of labor data revealed a diurnal distribution with an apogee at midnight to 2 AM and a nadir at 11 AM to noon.
(11) The apogee of this feeling came in the summer with the release of Burn (a track first written for the X Factor winner Leona Lewis).
(12) So it's probably worth noting at this stage that people have been declaring episodic storytelling, mixed voices and unreliable narrators as the apogee of innovation at least since Achaemenides told Aeneas about Polyphemus.
(13) There were two steroid peaks between the LH apogees.
(14) Built in the 1560, the gigantic mausoleum is an example of a great tomb-building tradition which reached its apogee 100 years later with the Taj Mahal.
(15) Immediate, transient pressor responses occurred in 94 per cent followed by a more gradual sustained change in blood pressure reaching an apogee in about 20 minutes.
(16) The choices thereafter are many – you are close to the ridge and the Spanish border – but that spring is the apogee of the walk.
(17) While the Disney film is set at the apogee of empire – "The year is 1910, it's the age of men" crowed David Tomlinson as Mr Banks – Travers's book is firmly located in the 1930s, Auden's "low, dishonest decade".
(18) The hourly means of ionized calcium and phosphorus demonstrate significant diurnal variation with a similar apogee, nadir, and periodicity (24 hours).
(19) Nobody wants, and, in particular, nobody wants to pay for, a restoration of the Swedish welfare state at its apogee.
(20) To a gathered crowd of onlookers, Otis ascended into the air on his platform, then, at the apogee, had an assistant cut the rope with a dagger.
Apsis
Definition:
(n.) One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.
(n.) In a curve referred to polar coordinates, any point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum.
(n.) Same as Apse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two previously reported pediatric severity scoring systems, the Admission Physiologic Stability Index (APSI) and the Organ System Failure (OSF) score were evaluated for 151 patients.
(2) The APSI was higher for children who died than for those who lived (p less than 0.001).
(3) It is anticipated that the APSI will be of value in a variety of treatment and research contexts.
(4) APSI shows that moderately severe postAMI patients can benefit from a beta-blocking treatment and a beta-blocker with mild intrinsic sympathomimetic activity can be effective.
(5) This difference reflected the sharp distinction between the APSI for children who left intensive care within 24 h and those remaining in ICU longer than 24 h (p less than 0.001).
(6) This article presents the multicenter development of the Adolescent Psychosocial Seizure Inventory (APSI), an empirically based self-report test patterned after the Washington Psychosocial Seizure Inventory, which is used to evaluate psychosocial problems in adults.
(7) Acebutolol et Prévention Secondaire de l'Infarctus (APSI), a randomized, placebo-controlled trial, was designed to test long-term acebutolol, 200 mg twice daily, a beta blocker with mild intrinsic sympathomimetic activity, in the prevention of late death in high-risk postacute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients.
(8) LZEJ and APSI cells could readily be distinguished from each other after co-injection by using specific and sequential staining protocols of whole organs or sections; staining of host organ cells was minimized.
(9) After pilot work, 120 adolescents with epilepsy from five centers in North America took the APSI and were interviewed by professionals with respect to adequacy of adjustment in eight psychosocial areas.
(10) APsys (19%), and delta AP (43%) were significantly increased from predive values, with an additional increase detected for all these variables after 60 min at 30 bar.
(11) For children remaining in ICU longer than 24 h, there was a large overlap of APSI scores, and the APSI did not discriminate between children in the overlap region who lived and those who died (p = 0.054).
(12) There was underscoring of neurological patients; the APSI did not differentiate neurological patients whole lived and those who died (p greater than 0.10).
(13) Co-injection of the two tumor cell classes resulted in similar numbers of homogeneous microfoci in lungs of LZEJ or APSI cells within minutes after injection that persisted for several hours before clearance of most of them.
(14) Although the objective was not achieved, APSI patients were at a higher risk than the average of the 9 previous trials with beta blockers (12% instead of 7%).
(15) APSI was planned because patients with a death rate greater than 20% have not been enrolled in significant numbers in previous trials and in such high-risk patients, it remained to be proven that beta blockers have a beneficial effect.
(16) The observed chemical shifts suggest the existence of an atypical syn conformation for pseudouridine in the Apsi base pair in regulatory tRNAs in solution.