artificial satellite

Questions about artificial satellite

What does artificial satellite mean?

artificial satellite means "man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon".

What is another word for artificial satellite?

Close synonyms include satellite, orbiter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is artificial satellite a common word?

artificial satellite is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.