Orbiting - English meaning

Orbiting – definitions in English dictionary

verb
(of a celestial object or spacecraft) move in orbit round (a star or planet).
Usage examples:
Mercury orbits the sun

noun
The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft round a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
Usage examples:
The earth's orbit around the sun

noun
An area of activity, interest, or influence.
Usage examples:
Audiences drawn largely from outside the party orbit

noun
The cavity in the skull of a vertebrate that contains the eye; the eye socket.
Usage examples:
Because the orbit (eye socket) is made of bone it cannot expand to accommodate the protruding eyeba…

verb
Present participle of orbit
Usage examples:
On this mission the shuttle will orbit (the earth) at a height of several hundred miles.

Orbiting translation into English

Orbiting: translate from English into Chinese

绕行

Orbiting: translate from English into Dutch

In een baan om de aarde, Aardbaan-

Orbiting: translate from English into French

En orbite

Orbiting: translate from English into German

Umkreisen, Umkreisung

Orbiting: translate from English into Hindi

परिक्रमा, कक्षा का, कक्षा में लाना, ग्रहपथ का

Orbiting: translate from English into Italian

Orbitante

Orbiting: translate from English into Korean

궤도를 도는, 궤도를 선회하는, 궤도를 선회하기

Orbiting: translate from English into Russian

Орбитальный, Движение по орбите, Вывод на орбиту

Orbiting: translate from English into Spanish

Orbital, Vuelo orbital

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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Orbiting – similar words

orbitals

ˈɔː.bɪ.təl

noun
An orbital road.
Usage examples:
The m25, the london orbital where traffic moves so slowly that it has basically become the world's …

adjective
Relating to an orbit or orbits.
Usage examples:
With its emphasis on accurate space flight simulation and orbital mechanics, orbiter is not all thi…

adjective
Relating to the orbit (= curved path) of an object in space
Usage examples:
An orbital space station

Orbitals - all meanings in English

orbital

adjective
Relating to an orbit or orbits.
Usage examples:
With its emphasis on accurate space flight simulation and orbital mechanics, orbiter is not all thi…

noun
An orbital road.
Usage examples:
The m25, the london orbital where traffic moves so slowly that it has basically become the world's …

noun
The path that an electron or electrons take around the nucleus (= central part) of an atom

Orbital - all meanings in English

orbit

noun
The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft round a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
Usage examples:
The earth's orbit around the sun

verb
(of a celestial object or spacecraft) move in orbit round (a star or planet).
Usage examples:
Mercury orbits the sun

noun
The curved path through which objects in space move around a planet or star that has gravity (= a pulling force)

Orbit - all meanings in English

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