satellite

Meanings

Noun

• A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.
• A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.
• A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
• An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman.
• Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that utilize man-made satellite technology.
• 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".

Verb

• To transmit by satellite.

Related

Similar words

• sat

Narrower meaning words

• anti-satellite
• femtosatellite
• fixed satellite
• microsatellite
• minisatellite
• nanosatellite
• picosatellite
• quasi-satellite, quasisatellite
• space satellite
• spy satellite

Origin

• From Middle French satellite, from Latin satelles ("attendant"). Ultimately perhaps of Etruscan origin.