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adj. - Of or having an orbit with a fixed period of 24 hours (although the position in the orbit may not be fixed with respect to the earth).

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  • The Captain, being in geosynchronous orbit, was being accelerated.
  • -- Technology development should give top priority to a demonstration solar power satellite in geosynchronous orbit;
  • Nine hundred million miles and three hours later (not counting time dilation), we were in geosynchronous orbit over Saturn.
  • The only satellites that are truly distant from Earth are the several hundred in geosynchronous orbit, a tenth of the way to the moon.
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