(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.
Perigee
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Perigeum
Example Sentences:
(1) Dose-response curves for methacholine-induced acid and pepsin secretion at the perigee did not differ from those obtained with ganglionic blockade.
(2) Protein peaks and 100-min totals were lower than control and volume perigees higher.
(3) The interpeak interval was increased, and the perigee levels (interpeak) were higher than in the controls.