SATELLITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does satellite mean? 

• SATELLITE (noun)
  The noun SATELLITE has 3 senses:

1. man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon

2. a person who follows or serves another

3. any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star

  Familiarity information: SATELLITE used as a noun is uncommon.

• SATELLITE (adjective)
  The adjective SATELLITE has 1 sense:

1. surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power

  Familiarity information: SATELLITE used as an adjective is very rare.

• SATELLITE (verb)
  The verb SATELLITE has 1 sense:

1. broadcast or disseminate via satellite

  Familiarity information: SATELLITE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SATELLITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

artificial satellite; orbiter; satellite

Hypernyms ("satellite" is a kind of...):

equipment (an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service)

Meronyms (parts of "satellite"):

solar array; solar battery; solar panel (electrical device consisting of a large array of connected solar cells)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "satellite"):

astronomy satellite (a satellite equipped with a telescope to observe infrared radiation)

communications satellite (an artificial satellite that relays signals back to earth; moves in a geostationary orbit)

ballistic capsule; space vehicle; spacecraft (a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun)

space laboratory; space platform; space station (a manned artificial satellite in a fixed orbit designed for scientific research)

sputnik (a Russian artificial satellite)

spy satellite (a satellite with sensors to detect nuclear explosions)

meteorological satellite; weather satellite (a satellite that transmits frequent picture of the earth below)

Derivation:

satellite (broadcast or disseminate via satellite)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who follows or serves another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

planet; satellite

Hypernyms ("satellite" is a kind of...):

follower (a person who accepts the leadership of another)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("satellite" is a kind of...):

celestial body; heavenly body (natural objects visible in the sky)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "satellite"):

Galilean; Galilean satellite (one of the four satellites of Jupiter that were discovered by Galileo)

moon (any natural satellite of a planet)

Instance hyponyms:

Deimos (the outer of two small satellites of Mars)

Moon (the natural satellite of the Earth)

Phobos (the larger of the two satellites of Mars)

Titan (the largest of the satellites of Saturn; has a hazy nitrogen atmosphere)

• SATELLITE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power

Context example:

a city and its satellite communities

Similar:

outer (being on the outside or further from a center)

• SATELLITE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Broadcast or disseminate via satellite

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "satellite" is one way to...):

air; beam; broadcast; send; transmit (broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They satellite the information to them

Derivation:

satellite (man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon)

 Context examples 

The satellite took three years to complete.

(Satellite made by Brazilian junior high students launched in Japan, Agência Brasil)

In 2012, the eight-ton Envisat Earth Observation satellite unexpectedly shut-down in orbit, where it remains.

(Australia Developing Lasers to Track, Destroy Space Junk, VOA)

The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite can measure precipitation from space.

(France's Flooding Rains Examined by NASA’s IMERG, NASA)

It is considered to be a subviral satellite because it requires the assistance of viral particles from hepatitis B virus to replicate and infect other hepatocytes.

(hepatitis D virus, NCI Thesaurus)

Landsat satellites captured this pair of images showing changes in the glacier and lake.

(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)

A multicentric cancer consists of a primary tumor with satellites of cancerous growth in surrounding tissues.

(Multicentric, NCI Thesaurus)

Cardiac catheterization laboratory that is not integrated with any other entity as a health care provider, a department of a provider, remote location of a hospital, satellite facility, or a provider-based entity.

(Free-Standing Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, NCI Thesaurus)

Oligodendroglia may be called interfascicular, perivascular, or perineuronal satellite cells according to their location.

(Murine Oligodendroglia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Any DNA sequence rearrangement that results in the gain of copies of a genomic region, typically in the form of long interspersed sequences, short interspersed sequences, satellite sequences and retrotransposons.

(Genetic Duplication Process, NCI Thesaurus)

The research team used both satellite images and subsurface gliders to study the water.

(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)