EGAVE

orbital

About 5.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Of or relating to, or forming an orbit (such as the orbit of a moon, planet, or spacecraft).
  2. adjective Of or relating to the eye socket (eyehole).
  3. adjective Passing around the outside of an urban area.
    The M25 is an orbital motorway around London.
  4. noun A specification of the energy and probability density of one or more electrons at any point in an atom or molecule, representable as a wave function.
  5. noun Ellipsis of orbital motorway.
  6. noun Ellipsis of orbital sander.

Similar words

satellite orbiter west subtropical tropical antibonding rail path trajectory track

Often followed by

angular motion and fissure period rim plane floor of

Word family

orbitals

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