(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is an object which has been sent into space in order to collect information or to be part of a communications system. Satellites move continually round the earth or around another planet.
The rocket launched two communications ~s...
The signals are sent by ~ link...
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2.
Satellite television is broadcast using a ~.
They have four ~ channels.
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3.
A ~ is a natural object in space that moves round a planet or star.
...the ~s of Jupiter.
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4.
You can refer to a country, area, or organization as a ~ when it is controlled by or depends on a larger and more powerful one.
Italy became a ~ state of Germany by the end of the 1930s.
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