EGAVE

orbit

About 7.39 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The curved path of one object around a point or another body. An elliptical movement of an object about a celestial object or Lagrange point, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
    The Moon's orbit around the Earth takes nearly one month to complete.
  2. noun An elliptical movement of an object about a celestial object or Lagrange point, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
    The Moon's orbit around the Earth takes nearly one month to complete.
  3. noun One complete circuit round an orbited body.
    The Moon's orbit around the Earth takes nearly one month to complete.
  4. noun The state of moving in an orbit.
  5. noun The path of an electron around an atomic nucleus.
  6. noun A path for the ball on the outer edge of the playfield, usually connected so that the ball entering in one end will come out of the other.
  7. noun A sphere of influence; an area or extent of activity, interest, or control.
    In the post WWII era, several eastern European countries came into the orbit of the Soviet Union.
  8. noun The bony cavity in the skull of a vertebrate containing the eyeball.

Similar words

compass area sphere range ambit field scope domain arena revolve

Often followed by

of is and around in to the with coupling

Word family

orbited orbiting orbits

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