satellite

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power

   a city and its satellite communities

2. 2
   noun

   A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.

   The Moon is a natural satellite of the Earth.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman.

   We read in the Bible, that Nicanor the persecutor of Gods Law[…]sent his Satellites to apprehend the good old man Rasias[…].

5. 5
   noun

   Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that use man-made satellite technology.

   Do you have satellite at your house?

6. 6
   noun

   A community or town dependent on a larger town or city nearby.

   Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land.

7. 7
   verb

   To transmit by satellite.

   It had to speed up its efforts to participate in the international satellite television market. In the summer of 1986 it began satelliting TV programs to Africa, and in early 1987, to Asia and twenty countries in Latin America […]

8. 8
   noun

   man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon

Etymology

From Middle French satellite, from Latin satelles (“attendant”). Ultimately perhaps of Etruscan origin.