point of periapsis

Questions about point of periapsis

What does point of periapsis mean?

point of periapsis means "(astronomy) the point in an orbit closest to the body being orbited".

What is another word for point of periapsis?

Close synonyms include periapsis. 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 periapsis?

The recorded antonyms are point of apoapsis.

Is point of periapsis a common word?

point of periapsis 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.