(satellites)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A satellite 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 satellites...
The signals are sent by satellite link...
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2.
Satellite television is broadcast using a satellite.
They have four satellite channels.
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3.
A satellite is a natural object in space that moves round a planet or star.
...the satellites of Jupiter.
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4.
You can refer to a country, area, or organization as a satellite when it is controlled by or depends on a larger and more powerful one.
Italy became a satellite state of Germany by the end of the 1930s.
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