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presatellite

presatellite adjective: before the use of a satellite.

Adjective

presatellite (not comparable)

  1. Before the use of a satellite.
    • She had had a satellite dish installed just so she could watch The Young and the Restless every day instead of waiting for the damn state to puit it on Ratnet. In her presatellite days, she'd once had to wait two weeks to find out if Nicholas Newman had gone to jail for a murder he naturally had...1997, Dana Stabenow, Breakup, →ISBN, page 189
    • In presatellite days, certain components of the radiation balance, such as short wave (reflected) and long wave (absorbed and reradiated) energy losses to space, were established by estimation, not measurement.2007, Arthur P. Cracknell, Introduction to Remote Sensing, →ISBN, page 256

Origin of presatellite

From pre- + satellite.

Questions about presatellite

What does presatellite mean?
Presatellite means before the use of a satellite.
What part of speech is presatellite?
Presatellite is an adjective.

Words near presatellite in the dictionary

  1. presanctions
  2. presanitary
  3. presarcopenia
  4. presartorial
  5. presas
  6. presatellite
  7. presatiate
  8. presatiated
  9. presatisfied
  10. presatisfies
  11. presatisfy

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