Orbit

Noun

 * 1) A circular or elliptical path of one object around another object.
 * The Moon's orbit around the Earth takes nearly one month to complete.
 * 1) A sphere of influence; an area of control.
 * In the post WWII era, several eastern European countries came into the orbit of the Soviet Union.
 * 1) The course of one's usual progression, or the extent of one's typical range.
 * The convenience store was a heavily travelled point in her daily orbit, as she purchased both cigarettes and lottery tickets there.
 * 1)  The bony cavity containing the eyeball; the eye socket.
 * 2)  The path an electron takes around an atom's nucleus
 * 3)  A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.

Verb

 * 1) To circle or revolve around another object.
 * The Earth orbits the Sun.
 * 1) To move around the general vicinity of something.
 * The harried mother had a cloud of children orbiting her, asking for sweets.
 * 1) To place an object into an orbit around a planet
 * A rocket was used to orbit the satellite

Synonyms

 * (move around the general vicinity of): circumambulate, tag along
 * (place an object into an orbit): launch

Adjectives for Orbit
implicated; moral; common; planetary; definite; independent; lurid; respective; mathematical ; elliptic. adjectives abounding; blooming; sappy; tastic; ravaged; new-planted; dripping; festive; beauteous.

Verbs for Orbit
blight—; cultivate—; enclose—; fertilize—; frost—; harvest—; irrigate—; plan—; protect—; prune—; rob—; stock from—; tour —; —blooms; —blossoms; —supplies; — yields.

Thesaurus
Earth insertion, LEM, LM, O, air lane, ambit, annular muscle, annulus, aphelion, apogee, area, arena, areola, astronomical longitude, attitude-control rocket, aureole, autumnal equinox, bailiwick, ball, ballistic capsule, balloon, beat, bladder, blob, boll, bolus, border, borderland, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, burn, capsule, celestial equator, celestial longitude, celestial meridian, chaplet, circle, circling, circuit, circuiteer, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulate, circulation, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulate, circumambulation, circumference, circumflexion, circumlocution, circummigrate, circummigration, circumnavigate, circumnavigation, circumvent, circus, close the circle, closed circle, colures, come full circle, compass, constituency, corona, coronet, course, crown, cycle, deep-space ship, demesne, department, describe a circle, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, diadem, digression, discipline, discus, disk, docking, docking maneuver, domain, dominion, ecliptic, ellipsoid, encircle, encompass, equator, equinoctial, equinoctial circle, equinoctial colure, equinox, eternal return, excursion, excursus, extension, extent, fairy ring, ferry rocket, field, flank, flight path, footing, fuel ship, full circle, galactic longitude, garland, geocentric longitude, geodetic longitude, geoid, girdle, girdle the globe, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, glory, go about, go around, go round, go the round, gob, gobbet, great circle, gyre, gyring, halo, heliocentric longitude, hemisphere, indirection, injection, insertion, itinerary, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, knob, knot, lap, lasso, line, logical circle, longitude, loop, looplet, lunar excursion module, lunar module, magic circle, make a circuit, manned rocket, march, meandering, meridian, module, moon ship, multistage rocket, noose, oblate spheroid, orb, orbiting, orblet, pale, parking orbit, path, pellet, perigee, perihelion, period, precinct, primrose path, prolate spheroid, province, purview, radius, reach, realm, reentry, revolution, revolve, ring, road, rocket, rondelle, rondure, round, round trip, roundaboutness, roundel, rounding, rounds, route, run, saucer, scope, sea lane, shortcut, shuttle rocket, skirt, small circle, soft landing, solstitial colure, space capsule, space docking, space rocket, spacecraft, spaceship, sphere, sphere of influence, spheroid, spherule, sphincter, spiral, spiraling, stamping ground, subdiscipline, surround, sweep, territory, tour, track, trade route, traject, trajectory, trajet, turf, turn, turning, vantage, vernal equinox, vicious circle, walk, wheel, wheeling, wreath, zodiac, zone

Etymology
Latin orbita ‘course, track’.

Pronunciation




Noun

 * Arabic: مدار
 * Armenian:
 * Bengali: কক্ষপথ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 軌道, 轨道, 軌跡, 轨迹
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: מסלול
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 軌道
 * Korean: 궤도 (軌道)
 * Malayalam: ഭ്രമണപഥം (bhramaNa patham)
 * Norwegian: bane
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene: krožnica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: omloppsbana
 * Telugu: కక్ష్య
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: quỹ đạo (軌道)

Verb

 * Dutch: omcirkelen, omlopen
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: umkreisen
 * Japanese: 周回する (しゅうかいする, shūkaisuru), 公転する (こうてんする, kōtensuru)


 * Malayalam: ഭ്രമണം ചെയ്യുക (bhramaNam cheyyuka)
 * Pashto:
 * Portuguese:
 * Sindhi: مَدارُ (Madaaru)
 * Telugu: కక్ష్య


 * Telugu: ప్రదక్షిణం

Derived terms

 * orbital