Geosatellite

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A satellite that orbits the earth, especially one that maintains communication with a receiver on earth.

    "One imaginative artist has hooked up a geosatellite device that detects the wobble of the satellite to a digital piano and “played” the wobble music—it sounds quite like a Philip Glass or Steve Reich minimalist music."

Example

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"One imaginative artist has hooked up a geosatellite device that detects the wobble of the satellite to a digital piano and “played” the wobble music—it sounds quite like a Philip Glass or Steve Reich minimalist music."

Etymology

From geo- + satellite.

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