point of apoapsis

Questions about point of apoapsis

What does point of apoapsis mean?

point of apoapsis means "(astronomy) the point in an orbit farthest from the body being orbited".

What is another word for point of apoapsis?

Close synonyms include apoapsis. 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.

What is the opposite of point of apoapsis?

The recorded antonyms are point of periapsis.

Is point of apoapsis a common word?

point of apoapsis 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.