[ˈapədʒiː], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the highest point in the development of something; a climax or culmination
(e.g: a film which was the apogee of German expressionist cinema)

- the point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is furthest from the earth


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Origin:
late 16th century: from French apogée or modern Latin apogaeum, from Greek apogaion (diastēma), ‘(distance) away from earth’, from apo ‘from’ + gaia, gē ‘earth’