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Apogee

noun

A final climactic stage. Synonym: culmination.

Apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth.

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... spite of all hostility. In the Salon of 1870 was shown the portrait of Eva Gonzales, the charming pastellist and pupil of Manet, and the impressive Execution of Maximilian at Queretaro. Manet was at the apogee of his talent, when the Franco-German war broke out. At the age of thirty-eight he had put forth a considerable amount of work, tried himself in all styles, severed his individuality from the slavish admiration of the old masters, and attained his own mastery. And now ...

— The French Impressionists (1860-1900) • Camille Mauclair

... various places is affected by almost innumerable influences, as distance of moon at its apogee or perigee; its position north, south, or at the equator; distance of earth from sun at perihelion and aphelion; the position of islands; the trend of continents, etc. All eastern shores have far greater tides than western. As the earth rolls to the east it leaves ...

— Recreations in Astronomy - With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work • Henry Warren

... the sense of amused superiority, and the secret duality which it gave to her consciousness. She even went so far as to ransack the library for these beatific biographies, and when she found herself rewarded for "diligent reading" her amusement was at its apogee. And thus, when the first awe and interest of the strange life receded, Eileen was left standing apart as on a little rock, criticising, satirising, and even circulating verses among the few cronies who were not sneaks. ...

— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill

... which gradually grew up between the repression of the Mutiny and the Partition of Bengal, a measure enforced on the sole plea of greater administrative efficiency by a Viceroy under whom a system of government by efficiency reached its apogee—himself the incarnation of efficiency and unquestionably the greatest and most indefatigable administrator that Britain sent out to India during that period. It would be unfair to suppose that that antagonism was due on either ...

— India, Old and New • Sir Valentine Chirol

... aparte. Apartment cxambro. Apathetic apatia. Apathy apatio. Ape simio. Ape (verb) imiti. Aperient laksileto. Aperture malfermajxo. Apex pinto, suprapinto. Apiary abelejo. Apish simia. Apocryphal apokrifa. Apogee apogeo. Apologise pardonon peti. Apologue apologo. Apology apologio. Apoplexy apopleksio. Apostle apostolo. Apostolic apostola. Apostrophe apostrofo. Apostrophize alparoli. Apothecary ...

— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

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