Sekirov Dictionary

satellite

/ˈsætəlaɪ̯t/

noun8

  1. a machine made to circle a planet or moon far above it, often passing signals or pictures back to Earth
  2. A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.
  3. (informal) Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that use man-made satellite technology.
  4. A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
  5. A community or town dependent on a larger town or city nearby.
  6. A very large array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA.
  7. 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".
  8. (no longer used) An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman.

verb2

  1. To transmit by satellite.
  2. To orbit, like a satellite
forms

satellited · satelliting · satellites

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