orbit : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another
  orbit.
  
  • he plotted the orbit of the moon

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• noun the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball
  orbit; orbital cavity; eye socket.
  

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• noun the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom
  orbit.
  

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• noun a geosynchronous orbit that is fixed with respect to a position on the Earth
  

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• noun a circular orbit around the Earth having a period of 24 hours
  

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• noun (astronomy) the angle between the plane of the orbit and the plane of the ecliptic stated in degrees
  inclination.
  

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• (Astron.), the angle which the orbit makes the ecliptic.

Webster 1913

• noun the time it takes to complete one full orbit around a celestial body
  
  • the orbit period depends on the altitude of the satellite

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• (Astron.), a point in an orbit which is at either extremity of the latus rectum drawn through the empty focus of the orbit.

Webster 1913