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Pear vs Perigee - What's the difference?

pear | perigee |

As nouns the difference between pear and perigee

is that pear is an edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem while perigee is the point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is closest to the Earth: the periapsis of an Earth orbiter.

pear

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem.
  • (also'' pear tree ) A type of fruit tree (''Pyrus communis ).
  • The wood of the pear tree.
  • Choke pear (a torture device).

    • Derived terms

    * alligator pear * anchovy-pear * apple-pear * apples and pears * Asian pear * avocado pear * balsam pear * butter-pear * cactus pear * Callery pear * Chinese pear, Chinese white pear * choke-pear * European pear * garlic pear * grape pear * greening-pear * hard pear * Japanese pear * Korean pear * Le Conte pear * Malvern pear * Moorcroft pear * Nashi pear * pear-apple * pear blight * pear drop * pear-encrinite * pear-gauge * pear-haw * pear leaf blister mite * pear leaf blister moth * pear leaf-curling midge, pear leaf midge * pear-louse * pear midge * pearmonger * pear orchard * pear oyster scale * pear-plum * pear psylla * pear-quince * pear-shaped * pear-shell * pear-slug * pear-sucker * pear-thorn * pear thrips * pear tree * pear-wise * pear-withe * pear-wood * peary * perry * prickly pear * sand Pear * snow pear * sugar-pear * snowy pear * Stinking Bishop pear * strawberry pear * Taiwan pear * vegetable pear * vine-pear * wax pear * willowleaf pear, willow-leafed pear * wooden pear * Ya Pear

    Anagrams

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    perigee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (astronomy) The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is closest to the Earth: the periapsis of an Earth orbiter.
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  • (astronomy, more generally) The point, in an orbit about any planet, that is closest to the planet: the periapsis of any satellite.
  • * 1995 , John H. Rogers, The Giant Planet Jupiter , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-41008-3, page 335:
    • Conjunctions of I and II [Io and Europa] occur when they are near perigee' and apogee respectively; conjunctions of II and III [Europa and Ganymede] occur when II [Europa] is near ' perigee .
  • * 2002 , Serge Brunier, Solar System Voyage , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-80724-1, page 36:
    • The resolution of the images obtained by this American probe [Messenger] will depend on its altitude [above Mercury] at any one time: about ten meters at perigee (200km altitude), but only one 1 km at apogee (15000km).
  • * 2010 , Ruth Walker and Mary M. Shaffrey et al., Exploring Space: The High Frontier , Jones & Bartlett Learning, ISBN 978-0-7637-8961-9, page 129:
    • [Nereid’s] apogee—farthest point from Neptune—is five times the distance of its perigee —its closest point.
  • (possibly, archaic, outside, astrology) The point, in any trajectory of an object in space, where it is closest to the Earth.

    • Derived terms

    * perigee moon

    Antonyms

    * apogee

    See also

    * periapsis, periastron, perihelion