orbital
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orbital
- /ɔː.bɪt.əl/ UK
- /ɔː.bɪt.l̩/ UK
- /ɔɹ.bət.l̩/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)bɪtəl
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Medieval Latin orbitālis, from orbita (“a track or rut; a circuit, orbit”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent to orbit + -al. Doublet of orbitalis.
adjective
- Of or relating to, or forming an orbit (such as the orbit of a moon, planet, or spacecraft). The 1.2-meter-diameter (4-foot-diameter) telescope has set off on a monthlong journey to its orbital destination of the sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, which is nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away from Earth and also home to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Euclid will keep pace with
- Of or relating to the eye socket (eyehole).
- (of roads, railways) Passing around the outside of an urban area. The M25 is an orbital motorway around London.
noun orbitals
- 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.
- Ellipsis of orbital motorway
- Ellipsis of orbital sander As with most power tools, orbitals can be divided into light and heavy-duty categories.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: satellite, orbiter, west, subtropical, tropical, antibonding, rail, path, trajectory, track, course, nodal, shell, circular, circumferential, gyratory
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adj of or relating to an orbit
| Español | orbital, orbitario |
|---|---|
| हिन्दी | कक्षक kakṣak |
| Português | orbital |
| Français | orbital |
| Deutsch | orbital |
| Italiano | orbitale |
| Română | orbital |
| Русский | орбита́льный orbitálʹnyj |
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title = {orbital},
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