How to pronounce “apsis”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (architecture) A recess or projection, with a dome or vault, at the east end of a church.
• (astronomy) Either of the points in the elliptical orbit of a planet, comet, or moon where it is closest or furthest from the body it orbits; examples are perihelion, aphelion, perigee, and apogee.

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