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单词 satellite
释义
satellitesat‧el‧lite /ˈsætəlaɪt/ ●●○ W3 noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINsatellite
Origin:
1500-1600 French, Latin satelles ‘personal servant or guard’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Soviet satellite countries
  • Susan Bruce plans to open a satellite store in St. Paul.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • In December the United Nations urged governments to get on with setting up a satellite system.
  • One month later a second satellite was launched into a somewhat higher orbit, of between 234 and 244 miles.
  • The other outstanding success of the voyage so far was the performance of our little satellite radio.
  • There were no reports of communications satellite failures.
word sets
WORD SETS
asteroid, nounastro-, prefixastronaut, nounastronomical, adjectiveastronomy, nounastrophysics, nounAU, aurora borealis, nounBig Bang, the, nounblack hole, nouncelestial, adjectivecomet, nounconstellation, nouncorona, nouncosmic, adjectivecosmic ray, nouncosmology, nouncosmonaut, noundead, adjectiveearth, nouneclipse, nouneclipse, verbecliptic, nounequinox, nounescape velocity, nounextraterrestrial, adjectivegalactic, adjectivegalaxy, noungeostationary orbit, nounHubble Space Telescope, the, infinity, nounintergalactic, adjectiveinterplanetary, adjectiveinterstellar, adjectiveJupiter, nounlaunch, verblaunch, nounlight year, nounLittle Bear, lunar, adjectivelunar month, nounmagnitude, nounMars, nounMercury, nounmeteor, nounmeteoric, adjectivemeteorite, nounMilky Way, the, month, nounmoon, nounmorning star, nounNASA, nounnebula, nounNeptune, nounnew moon, nounnova, nounobservatory, nounorbit, verborbit, nounorbiter, nounouter space, nounphase, nounplanet, nounplanetarium, nounplasma, nounPluto, nounquadrant, nounquarter, nounquasar, nounradio telescope, nounring, nounrocket, nounsatellite, nounSaturn, nounsea, nounshooting star, nounsolar, adjectivesolar system, nounspace, nounspace capsule, nounspacecraft, nounspace probe, nounspaceship, nounspace shuttle, nounspace station, nounstar, nounstargazer, nounsteady state theory, nounstellar, adjectivesun, nounsunspot, nounsupernova, nountelescope, nountelescopic, adjectiveterrestrial, adjectiveUranus, nounVenus, nounwane, verbwax, verbwhite dwarf, nounworld, nounzenith, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· The match was shown live in a world-wide satellite broadcast.
(=using signals sent from a machine in space)· CNN and other satellite channels
(=used for spying)· The Americans have denied using spy satellites to spy on China.· The photographs were taken by spy planes.
· They have a dish for satellite television.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Had the system been accepted the first commercial power satellite might have been in operation by 2010.· Hence Channel One, a commercial satellite network serving, if that is the mot juste, 12,000 schools.· Within a very few years, there should be commercial satellites in orbit capable of image resolutions down to less than 4m.· Instead the company is jumping headlong into the commercial satellite business.· Demand has been so feverish that the company has a backlog of unfilled orders for commercial satellites.
· Satcoms based on modern digital satellites like C-Sat could provide affordable data links.
· They say some cafes have illegal direct satellite links to the internet, to which the authorities often turn a blind eye.· But it may be the end of the decade before inexpensive, direct satellite connections are widely available.· Marketers of direct satellite systems do not limit themselves to homes without cable access.
· The navigation system employs Global Positioning System satellites and regional map software to help guide drivers to unfamiliar addresses.· Nevertheless, global television via satellite leaped across nearly all political boundaries.
· By providing reliable information on military activity, satellite surveillance could cut out the uncertainty which fuels arms spending.· No effects are observed on the surface, but infrared detectors aboard a Soviet military satellite o serve the event.· The system involves the same military satellites used in the Gulf war by the Allies to keep track of vehicle movements.· Other firms are manufacturing radios, wired and fiber-optic telecommunications, military equipment and satellite receivers in San Diego.
· It plans new satellite launches in the next two years which will provide full global coverage.· It the test is successful, it could lead to a new generation of satellites that would not need steering jets.· The extra cash would fund research related to the new generation of satellites planned for later in the 1980s.· The new venture using satellite telecommunications would also help spread the most up-to-date information to industries.· But a new generation of satellites will carry particularly sensitive instruments giving more detailed information.· A new satellite is sent up.· The new satellite will double the country's capacity for information gathering from space.· They are considering setting up an organisation called Eumetsat to plan three new satellites that will cost £250 million over eight years.
· By constantly shuffling alliances with smaller satellite parties they have been able to prevent the left from taking office.
· No effects are observed on the surface, but infrared detectors aboard a Soviet military satellite o serve the event.· Kennan applied the same formula in a more general way to the Soviet satellites.
NOUN
· Freeze-frame pictures consume less bandwidth on the satellite channel and so cost less.· The compression will let digital audio-visual services be carried by terrestrial and satellite channels, telecommunications networks or digital storage devices.
· The links may involve microwave or satellite communication in the medium to long term.· They should start regional cooperative programmes to share the costs of, for instance, satellite communications.· They also arrange satellite communications and provide other services for their vessels worldwide.· For 1993, however, Marconi Marine, of Chelmsford, provided the first satellite communications terminal ever used on Everest.· For satellite communications, geographical boundary lines are irrelevant.· Added to satellite communications, this could drastically reduce the need, among other things, for commuting in cities.· Like most other parks growing up around Bangalore, it will have its own power, sewage, and satellite communications systems.
· It is hoped the fight sill still be filmed and be picked up by one of the other satellite companies.· Lockheed Martin is already a leading satellite company.· A key issue to emerge from the game was the role of private satellite companies.· Communications satellite company Comsat Corp. was off 1 / 2 to 17 3 / 8.· I was not the only person who felt betrayed by filthy lucre when the World Cup went to the satellite company.· Government policy should not undermine free broadcasting in favor of pay services offered by cable, phone and satellite companies.
· Both superpowers are opposed to opening up their satellite data to other nations.· It gives a view of the Earth based on satellite data and photographs, interactive computers and audio-visual systems.· Other recently published satellite data reveals that such chemicals remained in the atmosphere much longer this winter than last.· The computers process the satellite data to turn them into useful information.
· In half an hour only one small truck passed, a satellite dish rocking in the back.· He said he also has five satellite dishes, meaning he can watch five sporting events at the same time.· Although satellite dishes for television are theoretically illegal, the Damascus skyline reveals them on almost every rooftop.· All of it flowed to a field of satellite dishes surrounded by spruce trees a few hundred yards from the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.· The Parish Council are of the opinion the satellite dish requires planning approval and it appears that no application has been made.· The DirecPC satellite dish and software retails for about $ 700.
· These can include site plans, satellite images, aerial photographs, geophysical survey, as well as maps.· Weather satellite images of the area taken from synchronous orbit show an immense circular area of dense clouds above the impact site.· First, there is the choice of satellite image and the production of a land-cover map.· The first wells were set alight in February 1991 and their smoke plumes were clearly visible on satellite images of the region.
· Derived from satellite imagery at comparatively low resolution, predicted yields for different crops in different nation states become of commercial value.· The visual evidence accumulates in the courtroom without argument: maps, video footage, satellite imagery and photographs.· Thematic maps from satellite imagery represent an important source of data, particularly in third-world countries.
· Filling in the gaps in local services by leasing dedicated satellite links and other telecoms services adds just 7 percent to costs.· She might arrange for a satellite link thousands of miles away, or a microwave link around the corner.· They say some cafes have illegal direct satellite links to the internet, to which the authorities often turn a blind eye.
· Filling in the gaps in local services by leasing dedicated satellite links and other telecoms services adds just 7 percent to costs.· Such difficulties not withstanding, fibreoptic systems could bring back to Earth some of the telephone communications that are routed through satellite links.· Typical videoconferencing systems utilise special telecommunication lines and satellite links.· They say some cafes have illegal direct satellite links to the internet, to which the authorities often turn a blind eye.
· Use the satellite phone for top security.· Part of their job was to give refugees access to satellite phones.· With laptops and satellite phones traffickers can receive information in remote jungle locations.· Senior police officers have been dismissed for joining the search on the beaches with satellite phones.
· Other satellite services have for some time been offering a kind of one-sided videoconferencing facility.· Instead, the corporation is hunting for stakes in both cable and satellite services.· That same month, the corporation announced new high-speed cable and satellite services of the kind that Mercury plans to offer.
· During the Kosovo conflict, the thick cloud meant that some unmanned aerial vehicles took more useful pictures than spy satellites.· These spy satellites were to be in place within a few years to monitor all Soviet military activities.· It is generally believed that the earliest Soviet military use of photographic imaging spy satellites was in 1962.
· All these satellite systems offer an insight in near real time.· In addition, a rapidly growing domestic satellite system may eventually permit domestic eavesdropping on a scale almost unimaginable.· In December the United Nations urged governments to get on with setting up a satellite system.· She would not even slacken speed as she raced through the far-ranging Jovian satellite system.· To extend our defence satellite system to cover the darkside channel would cost a further one hundred and twenty million.· Marketers of direct satellite systems do not limit themselves to homes without cable access.
· The boats stripping the world's seas are giant floating freezer factories equipped with radar locators and satellite technology.· Maybe, but the once pricey products that use this satellite technology have come down to earth.· With satellite technology it is now possible for a local station to pull in and present multiple pictures on the screen simultaneously.· And satellite technology has vastly expanded long-distance broadcast communications, especially television.
· He's been speaking from the mountain using a satellite telephone.
· It is illegal to have a residential television satellite dish.
· There is also an audiovisual language laboratory and facilities for receiving and recording satellite transmissions and for videoconferencing.· This is something which is much more difficult than physical access to a satellite transmission.· It is very difficult if not impossible to detect the interception of a satellite transmission.
· Some are communications and weather satellites not unlike their civilian brethren.
VERB
· At the same time a reforestation telethon will be broadcast live via satellite and by radio around the world.
· Eumetsat would launch three satellites over eight years for £250 million.· The company has launched 39 satellites so far.· First, it could hold up Challenger's next attempt to launch a relay satellite, in August.· Hughes has launched two Ku-band satellites each containing sixteen 120-watt transponders.· They did a full survey to begin with, launching several satellites to encircle the planet, collecting atmospheric and geographic data.· A half-dozen giants are bidding for the right to launch satellites that can pump streams of data directly into homes.· For instance, they could launch technically more advanced satellites and devise market-orientated ways of selling the data around the world.· Malerba was on last month's Atlantis shuttle flight which failed to launch a satellite to produce electricity.
· You share it with dolphins and whales and albatrosses and the lonely satellite orbiting overhead.· Within a very few years, there should be commercial satellites in orbit capable of image resolutions down to less than 4m.
· But Britain is likely to press for a deal under which its own industry provides hardware for the satellites.· The National Aeronautics and Space Administration had to figure out how to provide power for satellites.· Further evidence for a hot Jovian interior is provided by the satellites, as you shall see in section 9.4.4.
· Astronauts re-launch stranded satellite Astronauts on the space shuttle have sent a stranded satellite back into orbit.· Orders with facsimile illustrations are then sent by satellite to suppliers around the world.
· It would be transmitted on the Astra satellite used by BSkyB.· Their video will be transmitted by satellite to each of the schools taking part.
· Now, just for once try and earn that over-inflated salary we pay you. Use the satellite phone for top security.· Navy and Marine planes, using navigation satellites, can strike targets in all kinds of weather.· The new venture using satellite telecommunications would also help spread the most up-to-date information to industries.· Maybe, but the once pricey products that use this satellite technology have come down to earth.· The cash proposed yesterday will mainly be used to pay satellite broadcasters.· Technologysavvy farmers have begun using satellite positioning systems for precision planting and fertilizing.· He's been speaking from the mountain using a satellite telephone.· At first it would be used to launched satellites at a tenth the cost of the shuttle.
1satellite (1)a machine that has been sent into space and goes around the Earth, Moon etc, used for radio, television, and other electronic communication:  the launch of a communications and weather satellitevia/by satellite (=using a satellite) This broadcast comes live via satellite from New York.2a natural object that moves around a planet:  The Moon is a satellite of the Earth.3a country, area, or organization that is controlled by or is dependent on another larger one:  the former Soviet satellite country of Lithuania4a town that has developed next to a large city:  We stayed in Aurora, a satellite suburb of Chicago. → sat-nav, satphone
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