(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.
(v. i.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.
(v. i.) The highest point; the greatest degree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of the relatively high levels of endogenous TH in tadpoles during climax, the use of an in vivo saturation assay employing [125I]T3 was not feasible.
(2) Albuquerque is awash with speculation over how the show will climax today.
(3) B is the predominant glucocorticoid in tadpole plasma before climax.
(4) A series of misadventures and misunderstandings lead him to Calgary, where the whole Messiah mix-up reaches its painful, and tuneful, climax.
(5) After allogeneic grafting (CAP leads to LEW; RtH-1-incompatible) the non-specific-healing reaction progressed into a second phase, namely the specific reaction: increasing infiltration of the host cornea and the graft with small lymphocytes, blast cells and macrophages, directly followed by severe vascularization, reaching its climax about the 14th day.
(6) Quantitative and morphological data were obtained on developing olfactory axons in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, during late premetamorphosis (stages 48-54), prometamorphosis (stages 55-57), and halfway through metamorphic climax (stages 58-62).
(7) The vote provided the climax to a year of debate in which the bill at times seemed on the verge of passage and at others about to be scrapped.
(8) Deliberately structured like a western, American Sniper’s climax pits Kyle against Mustafa, an Iraqi sniper who does not utter a single word throughout the entire film.
(9) The general nerve terminal morphology and pattern of accumulation of acetylcholine receptors at cutaneous pectoris neuromuscular junctions were similar to those of the adult throughout metamorphic climax except that they still contained more than one motor axon.
(10) In a recent Facebook post, he called The Putin Interviews “a four-hour audacious climax to my strange life as an American film-maker”.
(11) In contrast, tadpoles allowed to survive up to 6 months showed no loss of motoneurons if they did not enter metamorphic climax.
(12) A renal action of prolactin during climax may facilitate metamorphosis.
(13) The characteristics of the nuclear T3 receptors present in red blood cells (RBCs) of Rana catesbeiana tadpoles undergoing metamorphic climax have been investigated with a T3 saturation technique.
(14) In the sort of flourish that was Gordon Brown's trademark at the end of his budgets, Osborne announced the fuel duty cut at the climax of a 56-minute speech built around the theme of boosting growth and rebalancing the economy.
(15) The summit will conduct a post-mortem on the Greek debacle, which climaxed at the weekend with agreement on the first ever bailout of a euro country, costing €110bn over three years for the eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund.
(16) Ted Cruz reaches the dramatic climax of his pitch to voters with a flourish that is as subtle as it is selfless.
(17) Thus, a transitory increase in plasma tetranectin was observed in early puberty, reaching its climax about the age of 11 to 12 in girls and 14 to 15 in boys.
(18) Using selected cDNAs, RNA dot blot analysis of liver mRNA from tadpoles at different stages of metamorphosis showed that the level of one thyroid hormone-enhanced mRNA increased during late prometamorphosis and metamorphic climax.
(19) However, uptake exhibited a rapid peak during early climax (stage II), before maximum concentrations of thyroid hormones were observed.
(20) Furthermore, since clonidine affects the Type 3 behavior associated with tucking, but not the somewhat similar coordinated behavior involved in hatching and emergence from the shell (climax), we propose that this later behavior pattern be given a new name, Type 4 motility.