The meaning of Orbit
Orbit – definition
nounThe curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft round a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
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The earth's orbit around the sunnounAn area of activity, interest, or influence.
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Audiences drawn largely from outside the party orbitnounThe cavity in the skull of a vertebrate that contains the eye; the eye socket.
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Because the orbit (eye socket) is made of bone it cannot expand to accommodate the protruding eyeba…
verb(of a celestial object or spacecraft) move in orbit round (a star or planet).
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Mercury orbits the sun
nounThe curved path through which objects in space move around a planet or star that has gravity (= a pulling force)
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Word origin
mid 16th century (in orbit (sense 3 of the noun)): from Latin orbita ‘course, track’ (in medieval Latin ‘eye socket’), feminine of orbitus ‘circular’, from orbis ‘ring’.
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