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APHELION
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Irregular inflected form: aphelia
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Apoapsis in solar orbit; the point in the orbit of a planet or comet that is at the greatest distance from the sun
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("aphelion" is a kind of...):
apoapsis; point of apoapsis ((astronomy) the point in an orbit farthest from the body being orbited)
Antonym:
perihelion (periapsis in solar orbit; the point in the orbit of a planet or comet where it is nearest to the sun)
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