Usually means: Farthest orbital point from sun.
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  1. aphelion: Merriam-Webster
  2. aphelion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aphelion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aphelion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aphelion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Aphelion, aphelion: Wordnik
  7. aphelion: Wiktionary
  8. aphelion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. aphelion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. aphelion: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. aphelion: Dictionary.com
  12. aphelion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Aphelion (Edenbridge album), Aphelion (disambiguation), Aphelion (software), Aphelion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Aphelion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. aphelion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. aphelion: Rhymezone
  17. Aphelion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. aphelion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. aphelion: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. aphelion: FreeDictionary.org
  21. aphelion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. aphelion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. aphelion: Merriam-Webster

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  1. aphelion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aphelion: A Word A Day

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Aphelion: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  3. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Mars Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Aphelion: Extragalactic Astronomy
  6. aphelion: Nine Planets Glossary
  7. APHELION: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aphelion: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  2. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. JPL Terms (No longer online)
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See aphelia as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (aphelion)

noun:  (astronomy, also figuratively) The point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, or other astronomical object, where it is farthest from the Sun.

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