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areosynchronous en · ADJ

Etymology

From areo- + synchronous; compare geosynchronous.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having a rate of revolution that matches the rotation period of Mars, and thus remaining over the same point on that planet's surface. (of the orbit of a satellite)
    • I can’t think of her [the spaceship] as an object. Not when I’m living inside her, sailing serenely along in areosynchronous orbit. 2004, Elizabeth Bear, Hammered, New York: Bantam, Book 2, p. 180:
    • […] the ships dropped a string of comm-relay satellites in areosynchronous orbit. 1986, Thomas Wren, chapter 14, in The Doomsday Effect,, New York: Baen Books, page 195: