aphelion

Etymology


A Greek form of (whence English, now displaced), from  +  (ultimately from ) + , modelled after.

The form  is from aphelion +.

Noun

 * 1)  The point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, or other astronomical object, where it is farthest from the Sun.

Related terms

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Translations

 * Arabic: أَوْج
 * Basque: afelio
 * Belarusian: афе́лій
 * Catalan: afeli
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: afélium
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 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: sólfirð
 * Irish: aiféilean, apaihéilean, cianphointe ó ghrian
 * Italian:
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 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: а́фел
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, afélia
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: афел
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 * Tagalog: higlayo sa Adlaw
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: điểm viễn nhật (點遠日)
 * Welsh: affelion