satellite

Etymology
From, from. Ultimately perhaps of origin.

Noun

 * 1) A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.
 * 2) A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.
 * 3) A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
 * 4)  An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman.
 * 5)  Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that use man-made satellite technology.
 * 6)  A grammatical construct that takes various forms and may encode a path of movement, a change of state, or the grammatical aspect. Examples: "a bird flew past"; "she turned on the light".
 * 7)  A very large array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA.
 * 8) A community or town dependent on a larger town or city nearby.
 * 1)  Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that use man-made satellite technology.
 * 2)  A grammatical construct that takes various forms and may encode a path of movement, a change of state, or the grammatical aspect. Examples: "a bird flew past"; "she turned on the light".
 * 3)  A very large array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA.
 * 4) A community or town dependent on a larger town or city nearby.
 * 1)  A grammatical construct that takes various forms and may encode a path of movement, a change of state, or the grammatical aspect. Examples: "a bird flew past"; "she turned on the light".
 * 2)  A very large array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA.
 * 3) A community or town dependent on a larger town or city nearby.

Usage notes

 * The man-made telecommunication objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon.

Synonyms

 * abbreviation

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , , ,
 * Danish: drabant
 * Finnish: ;
 * German: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: satellites
 * Turkmen: hemra


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: süni peyk,
 * Basque: satelite
 * Belarusian: сатэлі́т,
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: အရံဂြိုဟ်
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: satellit, drabant
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: თანამგზავრი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:, प्राकृतिक उपग्रह
 * Icelandic:, ,
 * Irish: satailít
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ບໍລິວານ
 * Malay: satelit
 * Manx: fo-phlannad, mac-plannad
 * Maori: amiorangi
 * Mongolian:
 * Mongolian: ᠳᠠᠭᠠᠭᠤᠯᠢ
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: družica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: hemra
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: (moon)


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ;  ; sivutoimisto, haarakonttori ;  ; ,
 * Greek:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Russian:


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: قَمَر اِصْطِنَاعِيّ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: satelite
 * Belarusian:, сатэлі́т
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: satellit
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: satelito
 * Estonian: satelliit
 * Faroese: fylgisveinur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ხელოვნური თანამგზავრი, სატელიტი
 * German:, , umkreisender Raumflugkörper
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: satailít
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: серік
 * Khmer: តារារណប
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao:
 * Latvian: pavadonis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: сатели́т
 * Malay: satelit
 * Maori: waka āmiorangi
 * Mongolian: хиймэл дагуул
 * Mongolian: ᢈᠢᠮᠡᠯ ᠳᠠᠭᠠᠭᠤᠯᠢ
 * Norman: satellite
 * Norwegian: satelitt
 * Persian:, قمر مصنوعی
 * Polish: sztuczny satelita, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сателит
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: umelá družica, družica
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: buntabay, likhang buntabay
 * Tajik:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, yapay uydu
 * Turkmen: hemra
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Uyghur: ھەمرا
 * Uzbek: sputnik, ,
 * Vietnamese: (衛星), vệ tinh nhân tạo
 * Welsh:


 * Bulgarian: сателитна телевизия
 * Finnish: satelliittitelkkari
 * Greek:
 * Japanese: 衛星放送
 * Korean: 위성방송(衛星放送)
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: hemra
 * Vietnamese: truyền hình vệ tinh


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * French:


 * Icelandic:,  ,  ,  ,
 * Lao:
 * Sindhi:
 * Telugu:

Verb

 * 1)  To transmit by satellite.

Etymology
(accusative singular of ).

Noun

 * 1)  (moon or other celestial body)
 * 2)  (man-made apparatus)

Etymology
.

Etymology
Borrowed from, accusative singular of.

Noun

 * 1)  a guard or watchman