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apsis

Length / number of characters: 5
Number of words: 1

  • a domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church
  • One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis
  • In a curve referred to polar coordinates, any point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum

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