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