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aposelene

aposelene noun: apoapsis around the moon.

Noun

aposelene (plural aposelenes)

  1. Apoapsis around the moon.
    • At its aposelene the Projectile's velocity would have reached its minimum; at the periselene, its maximum.1870, Jules Verne, All Around the Moon
    • It was injected smoothly into a translunar trajectory and when it reached the moon on 10th April it went into a moon orbit with a periselene of 160km, aposelene of 870km, inclination of 42 degrees and period of orbit of 2 hours and 40 minutes.1979, Julian Popescu, Russian space exploration: the first 21 years, page 26

Synonyms of aposelene

Forms of aposelene

pluralaposelenes

Questions about aposelene

What does aposelene mean?
Aposelene means apoapsis around the moon.
What part of speech is aposelene?
Aposelene is a noun.
What is the plural of aposelene?
The plural of aposelene is aposelenes.

Words near aposelene in the dictionary

  1. apos
  2. aposafranin
  3. aposafranine
  4. aposaturnium
  5. aposcopolamine
  6. aposelene
  7. aposelenes
  8. aposelenium
  9. aposematic
  10. aposematically
  11. aposematism

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