orbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.bɪt/
ipa: /ˈɔɹ.bɪt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪt
Forms: form: orbits
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English orbite, orbita, from Latin orbita (“course, track, impression, mark”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The Moon's orbit around the Earth takes nearly one month to complete.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
One complete circuit round an orbited body.
glosses: The curved path of one object around a point or another body.
The state of moving in an orbit.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The curved path of one object around a point or another body.
The path of an electron around an atomic nucleus.
glosses: The curved path of one object around a point or another body.
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.
qualifier: pinball
examples: text: In the post WWII era, several eastern European countries came into the orbit of the Soviet Union.
text: The convenience store was a heavily travelled point in her daily orbit, as she purchased both cigarettes and lottery tickets there.
text: Bondi has been inside Trump’s orbit for some time, and is widely seen to have demonstrated her loyalty to Trump during his first term, when she helped with his impeachment defense, and more recently when she repeatedly attended Trump’s criminal trial in New York.
ref: 2024 November 22, Hugo Lowell, “Trump names Pam Bondi as attorney general pick after Gaetz steps aside”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: So, it is clear from the consultation that while the intention is to bring track and train together under GBR, it will not escape the orbit of the government.
ref: 2025 March 5, Richard Wilcock, “DfT sets out its plans with rail reform consultation”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 28:
glosses: A sphere of influence; an area or extent of activity, interest, or control.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
related: word: orbita
synonyms: eye socket
cranial orbit
glosses: The bony cavity in the skull of a vertebrate containing the eyeball.
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
related: word: orbita
synonyms: eye socket
cranial orbit
glosses: The bony cavity in the skull of a vertebrate containing the eyeball.
The area around the eye of a bird or other animal.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.
topics: geometry
group-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The subset of elements of a set X to which a given element can be moved by members of a specified group of transformations that act on X.
examples: text: All right, I'll play one more orbit but then I'm leaving!
topics: card-games
poker
qualifier: Texas hold 'em
glosses: The number of hands such that each player at the table has posted the big blind once.
examples: text: Dad went into orbit when I told him that I'd crashed the car.
text: Given a veritable Pagan's Paddock by the Cats to work in on Friday night, Danger booted two goals in the first seven minutes to send Geelong fans into orbit.
ref: 2017 September 18, Andrew McGarry, “AFL finals week two: The heroes and villains from the elimination semi-finals”, in ABC News, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2018:
glosses: A state of increased excitement, activity, or anger.
Hyponyms: word: Bohr orbit
word: coorbit
word: escape orbit
word: halo orbit
word: heliosynchronous orbit
word: Hohmann orbit
word: Hohmann transfer orbit
word: innermost stable circular orbit
word: interorbit
alt: LETO
word: low energy transfer orbit
alt: LTO
word: lunar transfer orbit
alt: MTO
word: Mars transfer orbit
word: midorbit
word: P/2 orbit
word: periorbit
word: rectilinear orbit
word: suborbit
word: Sun-synchronous orbit
english: TO
translation: TO
word: transfer orbit
Derived terms: exorbitism
nuke it from orbit
orbifold
orbital
orbitary
orbitational
orbiter
orbitography
orbiton
orbitopathy
orbitotomy
orbitrap
orbit-stabilizer theorem