apogee
noun
[ ˈapədʒiː ]
• the highest point in the development of something; a climax or culmination.
• "a film which was the apogee of German expressionist cinema"
• the point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is furthest from the earth.
Origin:
late 16th century: from French apogée or modern Latin apogaeum, from Greek apogaion (diastēma), ‘(distance) away from earth’, from apo ‘from’ + gaia, gē ‘earth’.
