Usually means: Points of closest, farthest orbital distance.
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  1. apsides: Merriam-Webster
  2. apsides: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apsides: Collins English Dictionary
  4. apsides: Vocabulary.com
  5. apsides: Wordnik
  6. apsides: Wiktionary
  7. apsides: Dictionary.com
  8. Apsides: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. apsides: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Apsides: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. apsides: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Apsides: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. apsides: Encyclopedia

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  1. Apsides: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Definitions from Wiktionary (apsis)

noun:  (architecture) A recess or projection, with a dome or vault, at the east end of a church; an apse.
noun:  (astronomy) Either of the points in the elliptical orbit of a planet, comet, or moon where it is closest or furthest from the body it orbits; examples are perihelion, aphelion, perigee, and apogee
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