English Explanatory Dictionary

orbit

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The curved path of one object around a point or another body.
  2. An elliptical movement of an object about a celestial object or Lagrange point, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
  3. One complete circuit round an orbited body.
  4. The state of moving in an orbit.
  5. The path of an electron around an atomic nucleus.
  6. 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. A sphere of influence; an area or extent of activity, interest, or control.
  8. The bony cavity in the skull of a vertebrate containing the eyeball.
  9. The area around the eye of a bird or other animal.
  10. A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.
  11. 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.
  12. The number of hands such that each player at the table has posted the big blind once.
verb
  1. To circle or revolve around another object or position.
  2. To place an object (e.g. a satellite) into an orbit around a planet.
  3. To move around the general vicinity of something.
  4. To move in a circle.
  5. To center (around).
  6. To continue to follow or engage with someone by means of social media after breaking up with them.

Pronunciation

/ˈɔː.bɪt/ /ˈɔɹ.bɪt/ en-us-orbit.ogg

Word forms

orbit orbits orbiting orbited

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English orbite, orbita, from Latin orbita (“course, track, impression, mark”).

Synonyms

eye socket cranial orbit launch circumambulate tag along

Antonyms

deorbit

Related words

orbita satellite

Derived words

banana orbit exorbitism geosynchronous orbit high Earth orbit medium Earth orbit nuke it from orbit orbifold orbital orbitary orbitational orbiter orbitography orbiton orbitopathy orbitotomy orbitrap orbit-stabilizer theorem

Translations

Afrikaans: wentelbaan Albanian: orbitë Albanian: rrokull Arabic: مَدَار Arabic: فَلَك Aramaic: ܡܘܙܠܬܐ Armenian: ուղեծիր Asturian: órbita Azerbaijani: orbit Bashkir: орбита Belarusian: арбі́та Bengali: কক্ষপথ Breton: kelc'h Bulgarian: о́рбита Burmese: ပတ်လမ်း Burmese: လမ်း Catalan: òrbita Chinese Mandarin: 軌道 /轨道 Chinese Mandarin: 軌跡 /轨迹 Cornish: resegva Czech: oběžná dráha Czech: orbita Danish: kredsløb Danish: omløbsbane Dutch: baan Esperanto: orbito Estonian: orbiit Finnish: kiertorata Finnish: rata French: orbite Galician: órbita Georgian: ორბიტი German: Umlaufbahn German: Orbit Greek: τροχιά Ancient Greek: περίοδος Hebrew: מַסְלוּל Hindi: कक्षा Hindi: मदार Hindi: भ्रमण Hungarian: pálya Hungarian: űrpálya Ido: orbito Italian: orbita Japanese: 軌道 Kazakh: орбита Khmer: គន្លង Korean: 궤도 Kyrgyz: орбита Lao: ວົງໂຄຈອນ Latin: orbis Latin: circuitus Latin: ambitus Latin: gȳrus Bulgarian: орбити́рам Catalan: orbitar Cornish: resek a-dro Czech: obíhat Dutch: omcirkelen Dutch: omlopen Finnish: kiertää French: orbiter autour de Galician: orbitar German: umkreisen Hungarian: kering Irish: fithisigh Japanese: 周回する Japanese: 公転する Malayalam: ഭ്രമണം ചെയ്യുക Māori: amio Old English: ymbhweorfan Pashto: څرخول Persian: دورادن Polish: krążyć Polish: orbitować Portuguese: orbitar Sindhi: مَدارُ
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