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the highest point of something, where it is greatest or most successful 顶峰；顶点；最高点 a religious community that was at its apogee in the twelfth century 十二世纪处于鼎盛时期的宗教团体
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astronomy 天文学 the point in the orbit of the moon, a planet or other object in space when it is furthest from the planet, for example the earth, around which it turns 远地点（绕地运动的天体在轨道上离地球或其他行星的最远点）
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French apogée or modern Latin apogaeum, from Greek apogaion (diastēma), ‘(distance) away from earth’, from apo ‘from’ + gaia, gē ‘earth’.