satellite

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.
    — The Moon is a natural satellite of the Earth.
  2. A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.
    — Many telecommunication satellites orbit at 36000km above the equator.
  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. archaic
    — We read in the Bible, that Nicanor the persecutor of Gods Law[…]sent his Satellites to apprehend the good old man Rasias[…].
  5. Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that use man-made satellite technology. colloquial,uncountable
    — Do you have satellite at your house?
  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.
    — Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land.
动词 v.
  1. To transmit by satellite. transitive
    — It had to speed up its efforts to participate in the international satellite television market. In the summer of 1986 it began satelliting TV programs to Africa, and in early 1987, to Asia and twenty countries in Latin America […]
  2. To orbit, like a satellite

词形变化

satellites plural satellites present,singular,third-person satelliting participle,present satellited participle,past satellited past

词汇关系

下位词
anti-satellite femtosatellite fixed satellite microsatellite minisatellite nanosatellite picosatellite quasi-satellite quasisatellite space satellite spy satellite
衍生词
adenosatellite alphasatellite antisatellite artificial satellite betasatellite biosatellite communications satellite deltasatellite direct broadcast satellite Dyson-Harrop satellite geosatellite hypersatellite INMARSAT intersatellite intrasatellite macrosatellite megasatellite myosatellite power satellite presatellite protosatellite satellect satellitary satellite assembly satellite broadcasting satellite bus satellite campus satellite cell satellite city satellite dish satellite DNA satellite fly satellite-framed satellite-framing satellite galaxy satellite hit satellite image satellite link satellite moth satellite navigation satellite navigation system satellite operation satellite party satellite phone satellite planet satellitesimal satellite sphinx satellite state satellite station satellite team satellite telephone satellite television satellite tenant satellite town satellite TV satellite vein satellitism satellitization satellitome satellitosis satelloid satnav satphone shepherd satellite statite sub-satellite subsatellite telesatellite weather satellite
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词源

词源 1
From Middle French satellite, from Latin satelles (“attendant”). Ultimately perhaps of Etruscan origin.
词源 2
From Middle French satellite, from Latin satelles (“attendant”). Ultimately perhaps of Etruscan origin.
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