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Definitions for ORBit
ˈɔr bɪtor·bit

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. orbit, celestial orbitnoun

    the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another

    "he plotted the orbit of the moon"

  2. sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arenanoun

    a particular environment or walk of life

    "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit"

  3. scope, range, reach, orbit, compass, ambitnoun

    an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"

    "a piano has a greater range than the human voice"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power"

  4. orbit, electron orbitnoun

    the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom

  5. eye socket, orbit, cranial orbit, orbital cavityverb

    the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball

  6. orb, orbit, revolveverb

    move in an orbit

    "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus"

Wiktionary

  1. orbitnoun

    A circular or elliptical path of one object around another object.

    The Moon's orbit around the Earth takes nearly one month to complete.

  2. orbitnoun

    A sphere of influence; an area of control.

    In the post WWII era, several eastern European countries came into the orbit of the Soviet Union.

  3. orbitnoun

    The course of one's usual progression, or the extent of one's typical range.

    The convenience store was a heavily travelled point in her daily orbit, as she purchased both cigarettes and lottery tickets there.

  4. orbitnoun

    The bony cavity containing the eyeball; the eye socket.

  5. orbitnoun

    The path an electron takes around an atom's nucleus

  6. orbitnoun

    A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.

  7. orbitverb

    To circle or revolve around another object.

    The Earth orbits the Sun.

  8. orbitverb

    To move around the general vicinity of something.

    The harried mother had a cloud of children orbiting her, asking for sweets.

  9. orbitverb

    To place an object into an orbit around a planet

    A rocket was used to orbit the satellite

  10. Etymology: Latin orbita ‘course, track’.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Orbitnoun

    The line described by the revolution of a planet.

    Etymology: orbite, Fr. orbita, Latin.

    Suppose more suns in proper orbits roll’d,
    Dissolv’d the snows and chac’d the polar cold. Richard Blackmore.

    Suppose the earth placed nearer to the sun, and revolve for instance in the orbit of Mercury; there the whole ocean would even boil with extremity of heat, and be all exhaled into vapours; all plants and animals would be scorched. Richard Bentley.

ChatGPT

  1. orbit

    In a general context, "orbit" refers to the curved path that an object in space takes as it moves around a star, planet, or moon. This is typically due to the gravitational forces between the objects. However, in a broader scientific or mathematical context, "orbit" can also refer to any circular or elliptically shaped path or trajectory followed by a physical entity or points in a set under the action of given forces or mathematical operations.

Wikidata

  1. ORBit

    ORBit is a CORBA 2.4 compliant Object Request Broker. It features mature C, C++ and Python bindings, and less developed bindings for Perl, Lisp, Pascal, Ruby, and Tcl. Most of the code is distributed under the LGPL license, although the IDL compiler and utilities use the GPL. ORBit was originally written to serve as middleware for the GNOME project, but has seen use outside of the project.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Orbit

    or′bit, n. the path in which one of the heavenly bodies, as a planet, moves round another, as the sun: the hollow in the bone in which the eyeball rests—also Or′bita: the skin round the eye.—adjs. Or′bital, Or′bitary. [L. orbitaorbis, a ring.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Orbit

    Bony cavity that holds the eyeball and its associated tissues and appendages.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. orbit

    The path described by a planet or comet round the sun.

Editors Contribution

  1. orbit

    To move in a specific direction.

    The satellite orbit follows the direction of the movement of the plantet.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 15, 2020  

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Entomology

  1. Orbit

    an imaginary border around the eye: in Diptera the orbits are divided into vertical or superior; frontal and facial or anterior; of the cheek or inferior; occipital or posterior.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ORBit in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ORBit in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of ORBit in a Sentence

  1. Helena Morais:

    ' Oumuamua is a visitor to the solar system, that was a nice and important confirmation that interstellar objects can pass by. If they pass by then they may also be captured in a stable orbit as it is the case of 2015 BZ509.

  2. Stephen Kane:

    I would be very surprised if humanity made it to the orbit of Jupiter within the next few centuries.

  3. Scott Sheppard:

    It’s fairly faint. We don’t know its precise orbit yet and we don’t know anything about its chemical composition, we can guess at its size. We don’t know how much light it reflects. If it reflects a lot of light, if it’s very bright, it will be a smaller object. If it’s a darker object and doesn’t reflect much light, it would be much bigger.

  4. Dan Hart:

    The responsiveness of an air-launch platform is unparalleled, we can launch at any time, to any orbit (Earth or Moon) and from anywhere in the world.

  5. Joshua Schlieder:

    MARS MAY HAVE HOSTED LIFE EARLIER THAN EARTH DID, STUDY SAYS Joshua Schlieder, a co-author of the study and an astrophysicist at NASA Goddard, said that not all planets that orbit stars are identical, highlighting the differences between Earth and Venus. We still have many questions about why Earth became habitable and Venus did not.

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