satellite

noun satellites

1. archaic 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[…].
2. A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one. The Moon is a natural satellite of the Earth.
3. 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.

   Similar: artificial satellite

4. colloquial, uncountable Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that use man-made satellite technology. Do you have satellite at your house?
5. A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
6. 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. 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".
8. A very large array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA.

Similar: sat

verb satellites · satelliting · satellited

1. transitive 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 […]
2. To orbit, like a satellite