Satellite

Noun

 * 1)  An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman.
 * 2) *1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.3:
 * We read in the Bible, that Nicanor the persecutor of Gods Law [...] sent his Satellites to apprehend the good old man Rasias [...].
 * 1) * 1826, Walter Scott, Woodstock, page 348:
 * ...he would nevertheless have a better bargain of this tall satellite if they settled the debate betwixt them in the forest... . Betwixt anxiety, therefore, vexation, and anger, Charles faced suddenly round on his pursuer....
 * 1) * 1948, Willard E. Hawkins, The Technique of Fiction: A Basic Course in Story Writing, page 169:
 * The unnamed chronicler in his Dupin stories was the first Dr. Watson type of satellite—a narrator who accompanies the detective on his exploits, exclaims over his brilliance....
 * 1) A moon or other small body orbiting a larger one.
 * The Moon is a natural satellite of the Earth.
 * A spent upper stage is a derelict satellite.
 * 1) A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
 * 2) A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.
 * Many telecommunication satellites orbit at 36000km above the equator.
 * 1)  Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that utilize man-made satellite technology.
 * Do you have satellite at your house?

Derived terms

 * anti-satellite
 * fixed satellite
 * image satellite
 * satellite broadcasting
 * satellite campus
 * satellite cell
 * satellite dish
 * satellite DNA
 * satellite hit
 * satellite link
 * satellite navigation
 * satellite navigation system
 * satellite operation
 * satellite phone
 * satellite station
 * satellite telephone
 * satellite television
 * satellite tenant
 * space satellite
 * spy satellite

Thesaurus
ATDA, ATS, Alouette, Anna, Apollo, Ariel, Atlas-Score, Biosatellite, Comsat, Cosmos, Courier, Diapason, Discoverer, ERS, Early Bird, Echo, Elektron, Explorer, GATV, Gemini, Injun, Intelsat, Lofti, Luna, Lunar Orbiter, Lunik, Mariner, Mars probes, Mercury, Midas, Nimbus, OAO, OGO, OSO, Pageos, Pegasus, Pioneer, Proton, Ranger, Relay, Samos, San Marco, Secor, Sputnik, Surveyor, Syncom, Telstar, Transit, Vanguard, Viking, Voskhod, WRESAT, Zond, accompanying, acolyte, adherent, aide, aide-de-camp, ally, ancillary, appendage, archduchy, archdukedom, artificial satellite, artificial satellites, assistant, attendance, attendant, attending, body of retainers, body politic, buff, buffer state, captive nation, cavaliere servente, chieftaincy, chieftainry, city-state, cohort, coincident, collateral, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, communications satellite, cortege, country, county, court, courtier, creature, crescent, crescent moon, dangler, decrescent, decrescent moon, demilune, dependant, dependent, disciple, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, dummy, earldom, empery, empire, entourage, fan, favorite, figurehead, flunky, follower, following, free city, full moon, geo probe, geodetic satellite, geophysical satellite, gibbous moon, gillie, goon, grand duchy, half-moon, hanger-on, harvest moon, heeler, helper, henchman, homme de cour, incident, increscent, increscent moon, jackal, kingdom, lackey, land, lieutenant, man, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, minion, moon, myrmidon, nation, nationality, navigational satellite, new moon, orb of night, parasite, partisan, polis, polity, possession, power, principality, principate, probe, protectorate, province, public, puppet, puppet government, puppet regime, pursuer, pursuivant, queen of heaven, queen of night, realm, republic, research satellite, retainer, retinue, right-hand man, robot satellite, rout, sectary, seneschalty, servant, settlement, shadow, sidekick, silvery moon, sovereign nation, space probe, space satellite, spacecraft, sputnik, state, stooge, successor, suite, sultanate, superpower, supporter, sycophant, tagtail, tail, territory, the wandering Moon, thug, toparchia, toparchy, train, trainbearer, unmanned satellite, vassal, votary, waning crescent moon, waning moon, ward heeler, waxing crescent moon, waxing moon, weather satellite, wet moon

Etymology
From satellite:, from  satelles:.

Translations

 * Arabic:, قمر اصطناعي
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: satelite
 * Belarusian: спадарожнік
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: satèl·lit
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: satelito
 * Finnish: satelliitti; (natural) kiertolainen, kuu
 * French:
 * Galician: satélite
 * Georgian: ხელოვნური თანამგზავრი (χelovnuri t῾anamgzavri)
 * German:
 * Greek: δορυφόρος
 * Hebrew: לוויין (lavuyan)
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ດາວທຽມ
 * Latvian: pavadonis
 * Lithuanian: palydovas
 * Norwegian: satelitt
 * Polish: sztuczny satelita
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sindhi:
 * Slovak: umelá družica
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఉప్గ్రహం (upagrahaM)
 * Thai: ดาวเทียม
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: супутник
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: lloeren (artificial), lleuad (planet's moon)

Anagrams

 * telestial

Noun

 * 1) satellite

Etymology
From satelittem (nominative of satelles)

Related terms

 * satellisation
 * satelliser

Noun

 * 1) satellite

Related terms

 * satellitare
 * satellitismo
 * satellizzare
 * satelloide

Anagrams

 * allestite