Word: Orbit
How to pronounce: ˈɔːbɪt
Noun
Definitions:
1. The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
Example sentences: "The Earth's orbit around the sun"
2. A sphere of activity, interest, or application.
Example sentences: "A radical filmmaker outside the Hollywood orbit"
3. The cavity in the skull of a vertebrate that contains the eye; the eye socket.
Example sentences: "Because the orbit (eye socket) is made of bone it cannot expand to accommodate the protruding eyeball."
Transitive verb
Definitions:
1. (of a celestial object or spacecraft) move in orbit around (a star or planet)
Example sentences: "Mercury orbits the Sun"
Synonyms:
eye socket
eye sockets
eyesocket
orb
trajectory
arena
revolve
rotate
round
circle
circuit
range
Derivations:
orbital
orbited
orbiting
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Orbit in Other Languages...
Spanish: Orbitar
German: Orbit
French:
Italian: Orbita
Turkish: Yörünge
