Satellite - what is it? Despite the fact that the word "satellite" has long been actively used by many residents of the countries of the former Soviet Union, not all people know its meaning and true meaning. Moreover, some people are very surprised when they find out that this term has more than one interpretation! The purpose of this article is to understand all the meanings of the word "satellite", explain its origin and show examples of its use in Russian. Interested? Happy reading then!
Origin of the word "satellite"
When you analyze the meaning of a word, you can not help but turn to historical roots. "Satellite" is a derivative of the word "way". As you probably already understood, before the satellites were called people who make a journey with someone, travel.
Interesting fact: despite the fact that the word "satellite" haspurely Slavic roots, it is also actively used outside the Eastern European countries (in addition to it, in the languages of other states you can also find such words as "borscht", "banya", "taiga", "sable" and "tundra"). For example, in German it is written like this - Sputnik.
Space satellite
In the middle of the 20th century, a space race began between the two superpowers of the time, namely the Soviet Union and the United States of America. In the same period of time, the word satellite began to be called space objects that move in the orbit of the Earth or other planets. It can be like natural satellites (for example, the Earth has the Moon; Mars has Phobos and Deimos; Jupiter has Am althea, Lysiteya, Io, Ganymede, Callisto, Leda, Europe, Sinope, Himalia, Elara, Ananke, Karme, Tasife) and artificial ones (example: Sputnik-1 spacecraft launched by the USSR in 1957).
What is a satellite town?
A satellite city is a small town or urban-type settlement located near some regional center. Unlike a suburb, a satellite city is not part of a central city. The basic basis for building settlements of this type are industrial enterprises, educational institutions, research centers, etc. Satellite cities can be found on the territory of the countries of the former Soviet Union, in Finland, Sweden, Great Britain and many other states.
During Soviet times, satellite towns were divided into several types. Consider some of them:
- Industrial.
- Industrial and transport.
- Resort.
- Residential.
What is satellite geodesy and satellite meteorology?
This question is also quite common among some users of the World Wide Web.
Satellite geodesy is a branch of geodesy that considers the results of studies of artificial satellites of our planet and other spacecraft to determine the coordinates of Earth points, clarify the parameters of the planet's gravitational field, and also determine the relative position of distant parts of the earth's land.
Satellite meteorology is the study of processes that take place in the earth's atmosphere, using artificial space satellites.
Synonyms for "satellite"
There are not so many of them, but they still deserve mention in our article. Synonyms for the word "satellite" include:
- companion;
- fellow traveller;
- accompanying person;
- comrade;
- traveler;
- satellite (this synonym only applies to space satellites).
Sentences with "satellite"
You already know about all the meanings of the term "satellite", so let's move from theory to practice. Consider the use of the word "satellite" on the example of several sentences:
- In 1957 on earthorbit was launched the first space satellite in the history of mankind.
- NASA satellite successfully landed in the Atlantic Ocean.
- Space satellite was destroyed by enemy forces.
- Kryvyi Rih is a satellite city of the city of Dnepropetrovsk.
- He did not live in the regional center, but in a satellite town.
- Enemy troops launched an offensive not on the capital, but on its satellite city.
- She was not afraid to go at such a late hour, as she was accompanied by a faithful companion.
- In this difficult adventure, Igor was his companion.
- She kindly met both Pasha and his companion.
As you can see, there are an infinite number of such examples.
Now you know what a satellite is, what synonyms it has and what meanings this word has. We hope that this article was interesting for you and you received a lot of useful information!
