Image:Kepler2.gif|thumb|right|Diagram of a planet's orbit, illustrating Kepler's second law.
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Etymology
Latin orbita âcourse, trackâ.
Pronunciation
audio|en-us-orbit.ogg|Audio (US)
Noun
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- A circular or elliptical path of one object around another object.
#: The Moon's orbit around the Earth takes nearly one month to complete.
- 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.
- 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.
- anatomy The bony cavity containing the eyeball; the eye socket.
- physics The path an electron takes around an atom's nucleus
- mathematics A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.
Translations
trans-top|path of one object around another
Arabic: Arab|Ù
دار IPAchar|(madÄr) m
Chinese: 轨é (guÇdà o)
Czech: obÄžná dráha f
Dutch: baan f
Finnish: kiertorata
French: orbite f
German: Umlaufbahn f, Orbit m
Hungarian: űrpálya
Italian: orbita f
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Japanese: è»é (ãã©ã, kidÅ)
Korean: 궤ë (gwedo)
Malayalam: à´àµà´°à´®à´£à´ªà´¥à´ (bhramaNa patham)
Portuguese: órbita f
Russian: оÑбиÑа (orbÃta) f
Serbian: kružnica f
Slovene: krožnica f
Spanish: órbita f
Swedish: omloppsbana c
Turkish: yörünge
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trans-top|sphere of influence
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trans-top|course of usual progression
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eye socket
See eye socket.
Verb
en-verb
- To circle or revolve around another object.
#: The Earth orbits the Sun.
- To move around the general vicinity of something.
#: The harried mother had a cloud of children orbiting her, asking for sweets.
Synonyms
(move around the general vicinity of): circumambulate, tag along
Translations
trans-top|circle another object
Dutch: omcirkelen, omlopen
Finnish: kiertää
French: orbiter
German: umkreisen
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Japanese: å¨åãã (ãã
ããããã, shÅ«kaisuru), å
¬è»¢ãã (ããã¦ããã, kÅtensuru)
Malayalam: à´àµà´°à´®à´£à´ à´àµà´¯àµà´¯àµà´ (bhramaNam cheyyuka)
Portuguese: orbitar
Sindhi: Ù
Ùدار٠(Madaaru) m
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trans-top|move around the general vicinity of
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Derived terms
orbital
See also
satellite
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