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Meaning orbit meaning

What does orbit mean?
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orbit Noun

— An orbit is a circular path achieved by an object that goes around another that is generally bigger. The Earth's orbit around the sun is completed in nearly three hundred sixty-five days and a quarter of day. — An orbit is the hole in the skull containing the eyeball. Cartoon characters sometimes have their eyeballs going out of their orbits in order to make their expression look funny. — An orbit is the sphere of influence a powerful person, organization or country can have. During the Cold War, almost all Eastern European countries were in the orbit of the USSR.

orbit

— noun the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another he plotted the orbit of the moon — verb move in an orbit The moon orbits around the Earth The planets are orbiting the sun electrons orbit the nucleus — noun (= sphere, area) 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 — noun (= scope, range, reach, compass, ambit) 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 — noun the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom — noun (= eye socket) the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball

Synonyms orbit synonyms

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orbit English » English

sphere circle eye socket field revolve area track path orbital cavity domain compass celestial orbit orb electron orbit cranial orbit course arena scope rotation revolution realm reach range rail orbita move around epicycle cycle circulate circuit ambit way vocation twist twine turn out turn travel around tramway trajectory take in subject area spread out splay spiral sphere of influence skirt skate over short-circuit set

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Topics orbit topics

What do people use orbit to talk about?
Universe, creation Sky Sun

Planet
Physical actions Move Travel

Travel in space

Conjugation orbit conjugation

How do you conjugate orbit?

orbit · verb

Examples orbit examples

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Simple sentences

The satellite is now in orbit.
The satellite is in orbit around the moon.
The artificial satellite was launched into orbit.
The earth travels in an orbit around the sun.
Many moons orbit around Saturn.
It takes 165 years for Neptune to orbit around the sun.
Many satellites orbit the earth.
Thousands of satellites orbit around the earth.
The International Space Station is the largest artificial body in orbit.
Laika, a female dog, was the first animal to be launched into orbit.
Sputnik 1 was the first satellite to orbit around the Earth.
The astronaut is in orbit around the Earth.
Pluto has a very unusual orbit. Once every 248 Earth years, Pluto swings inside the orbit of Neptune. It stays there for twenty years. During those twenty years, Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptune.
The spaceship is out of orbit around the moon.
The rocket is in orbit around the moon.
The ESA put a satellite into orbit.
They succeeded in putting an artificial satellite in orbit.
This planet's orbit is congested with hundreds of captured moons.
Electrons orbit around the nucleus of the atom.

Movie subtitles

There's a possibility of binary stars - two stars that orbit each other, thereby dimming the stars as one blocks the other.
Cinematographic images of the surface of the moon by H.32 during its first orbit of the moon.
Remember, if we delay the take off as long as possible, Zyra's position will form a perfect orbit with ours.
If you hold the ship to this curve, we can meet her orbit and run parallel.
Uh oh, Johnny, it looks like you've stirred a little outside of your orbit, doesn't it?
Till the time we drew close to Mars' orbit, during a pleasant summer.
Orbit ship.
It had no further contact even when it return to the orbit.
ADAMS: Okay, Jerry, punch out an orbit on the fourth planet.
Equally unexpected was the next stride, when man moved out of his very orbit to a point more than 20 million miles to Earth.
Viper and Rattlesnake, break off, orbit Chinnampo area.
Here's some last-minute computations on adjusting the orbit.
Couldn't it be some kind of rocket in orbit or something?
Getting ready to go into orbit.
Everything seemed to orbit something.
Along with its deadly cargo of micro-drones, he has steered the station away from its Earth orbit.
The unmanned supply vehicle has already separated and is on trajectory for the station's orbit.
Once the station is destroyed, the micro-drones will scatter through its orbit along with the other debris.
Once there, you could deflect all of the virus from Earth's orbit into the void of outer space.
We can uncouple the warhead, position the Dolphin III at the proper elevation, and send the missile off. Mathematically, at least, it should be possible to reach the station's orbit and in time.
Once it has left Earth's orbit, it will then vector around Venus, sufficiently changing the trajectory so that ultimately it will plunge into the sun.
You see, gentlemen, the orbit of Orion is approximately this narrow path. between the equator and the 10-degree parallel.
The only isthmus running east and west under Orion's orbit. is this connecting link between the two continents of the New World.
Mrs. Orbit and Mrs. Brown, any subject of the crown, oh you never know just who you're going to meet.
Prepare to leave Earth's orbit.
We'll head for home as soon as we complete the orbit, Henry.
Climb to Angel-3-0 and orbit.
Here the data on M47's orbit.
The orbit shows a slight perturbation, but it could be a grav pull from the moon.
Let me know if you find out anything more about the new orbit.
Yeah, that swing out of orbit not normal.
During the unavoidable passing near my orbit, he walked by.
A giant torch reaching for distance. But, and to men who sweat out these projects mighty important but, Orbit is not obtained.
Maybe we should put in two flies and see if they'll propagate in orbit.
Don't send us into orbit!
And it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I'm in orbit around a supernova.
We are ready to leave orbit.
Mr. Spock, prepare to leave orbit as soon as the Karidian Company is aboard the ship.

News and current affairs

The American dollar soared, the Japanese yen went into orbit, the euro fell to earth, and the British pound crashed, leaving a giant crater.
As long as Hamas and Syria are left out of the United States-led peace process, they are condemned to Iran's orbit.
Some countries that traded a great deal with Britain, or were in the orbit of British imperial rule, continued to hold reserves in pounds after 1931.
The destruction of the Chinese satellite produced roughly 300,000 pieces of debris, causing severe pollution and putting many other spacecraft in the Earth's orbit in grave danger.
Deflecting an asteroid from its orbit when it is still hundreds of millions of miles from Earth is a feasible undertaking.
A year is the time that it takes for the earth to orbit the sun, which, except for seasonal industries like agriculture, has no particular economic significance.
Indeed, the Saakashvili administration might complain about Russian meddling, but it is unlikely to try to remove Georgia from Russia's economic orbit.
The other risk is that Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, or Myanmar could fall into China's strategic orbit.
This is as true as astronomical facts get, particularly because we have sent artificial satellites into orbit and seen that our planet is indeed roundish.
The Apollo program gave innovators clearly defined goals and a roadmap for getting there: first put animals in orbit, then put people there, then send probes to the moon, then send people there.
With Latin America's two largest economies in a holding pattern on reform, it is that much more difficult for even the region's high flyers, such as Chile, to achieve escape velocity into a sustained high growth orbit.
This leaves the uncertain future of Russia and those still in the Russian orbit, like Ukraine.
Some months ago, an American astronaut accidentally let a tool escape into orbit, eliciting concern about its hazardous potential as a hurtling object that could destroy an expensive satellite or even threaten lives aloft.
Mysteries that confounded the ancients were replaced by an ever more concise set of principles so that the flight of projectiles, the fall of an apple, the orbit of the moon, and the trajectories of planets could be quantitatively accounted for.
The EU and NATO are unable to expand farther, even though they may want to maintain post-Soviet countries' interest in membership in order to prevent their possible return to Russia's orbit.
Yanukovych's victory notwithstanding, Ukraine is a country that is becoming more European and gradually moving out of Russia's orbit in its own chaotic way.
PRINCETON - For the last century, economic-policy debate has been locked in orbit around the respective roles and virtues of the state and the market.
Belatedly and somewhat reluctantly, EU leaders have now accepted that they need to deal pragmatically with Lukashenko if they want to promote reform in Belarus and shift the country from its tight orbit around Russia.
It has moved into its own orbit.
Now, US policy, with its frantic search for a deal with the Taliban, is about to complete another orbit.
Unless the West acts quickly, Bin Laden's death is likely to result in a major realignment of world politics, driven in part by Pakistan's shift from America's strategic orbit to that of China.
Would Russia or a coalition of willing countries have the right to attempt to alter Apophis' orbit without the approval of other states?
The fall of a weight (or an apple!) can be connected to the moon's orbit around the earth and even to the structure of galaxies holding billions of solar systems.

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