satellite

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ldoce_290_bsat·el·lite /ˈsætəlaɪt/ W3 noun [countableC]

TCBa machine that has been sent into space and goes around the Earth, Moon etc, used for radio, television, and other electronic communication 人造卫星

the launch of a communications and weather satellite

气象通信卫星的发射

via/by satellite (=using a satellite) 通过人造卫星

This broadcast comes live via satellite from New York.

本节目通过卫星从纽约现场直播。

→5 See picture of satellite 人造卫星, satellite dish 碟形卫星天线 →4 See picture of 见图 satellite

2 HAa natural object that moves around a planet 卫星

The Moon is a satellite of the Earth.

月球是地球的卫星。

3 a country, area, or organization that is controlled by or is dependent on another larger one 卫星国；附属机构[地区]

5a satellite country

卫星国

n the former Soviet satellite country of Lithuania

4 a town that has developed next to a large city 卫星城

We stayed in Aurora, a satellite suburb of Chicago.

我们停留在奥罗拉，芝加哥的一个卫星郊区。

→ sat-nav, satphone

Examples from the Corpus

satellite• Susan Bruce plans to open a satellite store in St. Paul.• In December the United Nations urged governments to get on with setting up a satellite system.• There were no reports of communications satellite failures.• The other outstanding success of the voyage so far was the performance of our little satellite radio.• One month later a second satellite was launched into a somewhat higher orbit, of between 234 and 244 miles.• Soviet satellite countries

via/by satellite• Broadcast data via satellites also have a wide band width enabling good data transmission.• There were only a few occasions when I remembered the news room falling silent as news came in via satellite.• There will be a central convention site that will be linked by satellite with other sites around the country.• The proposal was that school classes would send in questions to the museum, which would relay them to me by satellite.• The broadcasts were relayed by satellite by the Avrasya television company.• Orders with facsimile illustrations are then sent by satellite to suppliers around the world.• They could do that by satellite.• One figure-eight contrail created as part of a NASAfunded study was tracked by satellite for 10 hours last spring.

From Longman Business Dictionary

satellitesat·el·lite /ˈsætəlaɪt/ noun

1[countableC, uncountableU] a machine that has been sent into space and goes around the Earth, used for radio, television, and other electronic communication

a satellite communications company

They provide news and live sporting events by satellite.

Shares in satellite TV companies fell yesterday to an all-time low.

2[countableC] a country or organization that is controlled by or is dependent on another larger one

the dissolution of the former Soviet Empire and the liberation of its satellites in Eastern Europe

Origin satellite

(1500-1600) French Latin satelles “personal servant or guard”

sat·el·lite noun

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