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apoapses

apoapses is the plural of apoapsis.

Meaning of apoapsis

Noun

apoapsis (plural apoapsides or apoapsises or apoapses)

  1. The point of a body's elliptical orbit about the system's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its maximum.
    Synonyms:
    apocenter, apoapse

Questions about apoapses

What is apoapses the plural of?
Apoapses is the plural of apoapsis.

Words near apoapses in the dictionary

  1. apo koinou
  2. apo-
  3. apoaequorin
  4. apoaequorins
  5. apoapse
  6. apoapses
  7. apoapsides
  8. apoapsis
  9. apoapsises
  10. apoareion
  11. apoareon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: apoapses (page history and authors); apoapsis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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