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Definition of Satellite

Satellite

  1. An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.
  2. A secondary planet which revolves about another planet; as, the moon is a satellite of the earth. See Solar system, under Solar.
  3. Situated near; accompanying; as, the satellite veins, those which accompany the arteries.

Satellite Quotations

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.
Dee Dee Myers

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
Sally Ride

When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.
Lech Walesa

I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.
J. C. Watts

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
Rupert Murdoch
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Satellite Translations

satellite in Afrikaans is trawant
satellite in Dutch is trawant, satelliet
satellite in French is satellite
satellite in German is Satellit, Satelliten
satellite in Italian is satellite
satellite in Norwegian is satelitt
satellite in Swedish is drabant, satellit

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