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Definition: Orbit |
OrbitNoun1. The (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another; "he plotted the orbit of the moon". 2. A particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit". 3. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power". 4. The path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom. 5. The bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball. Verb1. Move in an orbit, as of celestial bodies: "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "orbit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Orbit A Scheme compiler. ["Orbit: An Optimising Compiler for Scheme", D.A. Kranz et al, SIGPLAN Notices 21(7):281-292 (Jul 1986)]. (1994-10-28). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Aerospace | 1. The path of a body or particle under the influence of a gravitational or other force. For instance, the orbit of a celestial body is its path relative to another body around which it revolves. Orbit is commonly used to designate a closed path and trajectory to denote a path which is not closed. Thus, the trajectory of a sounding rocket, the orbit of a satellite.2. To go around the earth or other body in an orbit, sense 1. (references) |
Geography | Path, relative to a specified frame of reference described by the centre of mass of a satellite or other object in space, subjected solely to forces of natural origin, mainly the force of gravity. By extension, the path described by the centre of mass of an object in space subjected to forces of natural origin and occasional low-energy corrective forces exerted by a propulsive device in order to achieve and maintain a desired path. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | One of the two cavities in the skull which contains an eyeball. . . . each eye is located in a bony socket, or orbit. . AMERI 73 10-809. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Physics | The path of an object that is moving around a second object or point. (references) |
Post & Telecom | A second Telstar was orbited in 1963. . . . Relay 2. . . was launched in 1964 and operated successfully for 21 months. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | The path described by a heavenly body in its periodic revolution. Earth satellite orbits with inclinations near 0 degree are called equatorial orbits because the satellite stays nearly over the equator. Orbits with inclinations near 90 degrees are called polar orbits because the satellite crosses over (or nearly over) the north and south poles. See orbital inclination. (references) |
Space | The line followed by a spacecraft or a celestial body. See Sun synchronous orbit, synchronous orbit. (references) |
| The path of a body in space, generally under the influence of gravity. (references) | |
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Earth orbit is, simply, an orbit around the planet Earth. The Moon, Earth's only natural satellite, is in Earth orbit. Artificial satellites are launched into Earth orbit, and spacecraft bound for other locations in the solar system usually begin their missions by first attaining Earth orbit, before altering course to another planet, moon, or heliocentric (solar) orbit.Of special interest are LEO (Low Earth Orbit), HEO (High Earth Orbit) and geosynchronous orbit.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Earth orbit."
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This article is about orbits in physics. For an alternative meaning, see orbit (mathematics) or orbit (anatomy).
In physics, an orbit is the path that an object makes, around another object, while under the influence of some force. Orbits were first analysed mathematically by Kepler who formulated his results in his laws of planetary motion. He found that the orbits of the planets in our solar system are elliptical, not circular (or epicyclic), as had previously been believed.
Isaac Newton demonstrated that Kepler's laws were derivable from his theory of gravitation and that, in general, the orbits of bodies responding to the force of gravity were conic sections. Newton showed that a pair of bodies follow orbits of dimensions that are in inverse proportion to their masses about their common center of mass. Where one body is much more massive than the other, it is a convenient approximation to take the centre of mass as coinciding with the center of the more massive body.
Within a solar system, planets, asteroids, comets and smaller pieces of rubble orbit the central star in elliptical orbits. Any comet in a parabolic or hyperbolic orbit about the central star is not gravitationally bound to the star and therefore is not considered part of the star's solar system. To date, no comet has been observed in our solar system with a distinctly hyperbolic orbit. Bodies which are gravitationally bound to one of the planets in a solar system (satellites or moonss) follow orbits about that planet.
Due to mutual gravitational perturbations, the eccentricities of the orbits of the planets in our solar system vary over time. Pluto and Mercury have the most eccentric orbits. At the present epoch, Mars has the next largest eccentricity while the smallest eccentricities are those of the orbits of Venus and Neptune.
As an object orbits another object, periapsis is that point at which the orbiting object is closest to the object being orbited; apoapsis is that point at which the orbiting object is farthest from the object being orbited.
Planetary Orbits
In the elliptical orbit, the orbited object will sit at one focus; with nothing present at the other focus. As a planet approaches periapsis, the planet will increase in velocity. As a planet approaches apoapsis, the planet will decrease in velocity.See also: Kepler's laws of planetary motion
Understanding orbits
There are a few common ways of understanding orbits.
- As the object moves, it falls toward the orbited object. However it moves so quickly that the curvature of the orbited object will fall away beneath it.
- A force, gravity, pulls the object into a curve as it attempts to fly off in a straight line.
- As the object falls, it moves sideways fast enough to miss the orbited object. This understanding is particularly useful for mathematical analysis, because the object's motion can be described as the sum of three one-dimensional orbits around a gravitational center.
Newton's Laws of Motion
For a system of only two bodies that are only influenced by their mutual gravity, their orbits can be exactly calculated by Newton's laws of motion and gravity. Briefly, the sum of the forces will equal the mass times its acceleration. Gravity is proportional to mass, and falls off proportionally to the square of distance.To calculate, it is convenient to describe the motion in a coordinate system that is centered on the heavier body, and we can say that the lighter body is in orbit around the heavier body.
An unmoving body that's far from a large object has more energy than one that's close. This is because it can fall farther. This is called "potential energy" because it is not yet actual.
With two bodies, an orbit is a flat curve. The orbit can be open (so the object never returns) or closed (returning), depending on the total kinetic+potential energy of the system.
The path of a free-falling (orbiting) body is always a conic section.
An open orbit has the shape of a hyperbola (or in the limiting case, a parabola); the bodies approach each other for a while, curve around each other around the time of their closest approach, and then separate again forever. This is often the case with comets that occasionally approach the Sun.
A closed orbit has the shape of an ellipse (or in the limiting case, a circle). The point where the orbiting body is closest to Earth is the perigee, called periapsis (less properly, "perifocus" or "pericentron") when the orbit is around a body other than Earth. The point where the satellite is farthest from Earth is called apogee, apoapsis, or sometimes apifocus or apocentron. A line drawn from periapsis to apoapsis is the line-of-apsides, sometimes called the major-axis of the ellipse. It's simply a line drawn through the longest part of the ellipse.
Orbiting bodies in closed orbits repeat their path after a constant period of time. This motion is described by the empirical laws of Kepler, which can be mathematically derived from Newton's laws. These can be formulated as follows:
Except for special cases like Lagrangian points, no method is known to solve the equations of motion for a system with four or more bodies. The 2-body solutions were published by Newton in Principia in 1687. In 1912, K. F. Sundman developed a converging infinite series that solves the 3-body problem, however it converges too slowly to be of much use.
- The orbit of a planet around the Sun is an ellipse, with the Sun in one of the focal points of the ellipse. Therefore the orbit lies in a plane, called the orbital plane. The point on the orbit closest to the attracting body is the periapsis. The point farthest from the attracting body is called the apoapsis. There are also specific terms for orbits around particular bodies; things orbiting the Sun have a perihelion and aphelion, things orbiting the Earth have a perigee and apogee, and things orbiting the Moon have a perilune and apolune (or, synonymously, periselene and aposelene). An orbit around any star, not just the Sun, has a periastron and an apastron
- As the planet moves around its orbit during a fixed amount of time, the line from Sun to planet sweeps a constant area of the orbital plane, regardless of which part of its orbit the planet traces during that period of time. This means that the planet moves faster near its perihelion than near its aphelion, because at the smaller distance it needs to trace a greater arc to cover the same area. This law is usually stated as "equal areas in equal time."
- For each planet, the ratio of the 3rd power of its average distance to the Sun, to the 2nd power of its period, is the same constant value for all planets.
Instead, orbits can be approximated with arbitrarily high accuracy. These approximations take two forms.
One form takes the pure elliptic motion as a basis, and adds perturbation terms to account for the gravitational influence of multiple bodies. This is convenient for calculating the positions of astronomical bodies. The equations of motion of the moon, planets and other bodies are known with great accuracy, and are used to generate tables for celestial navigation.
The "differential equation" form is sometimes used for scientific or mission-planning purposes. It calculates the position of the objects a tiny time in the future, then repeats. According to Newston's laws, the sum of all the forces will equal the mass times its acceleration (F=MA). The perturbation terms are much easier to describe in this form. However tiny arithmetic errors from the limited accuracy of a computer's math accumulate, limiting the accuracy of this approach.
Differential simulations with large numbers of objects perform the calculations in a hierarchical pairwise fashion between centers of mass. Using this scheme, galaxies, star clusters and other large objects have been simulated.
Orbital parameters
A body moving in a 3-dimensional space has 6 degrees of freedom (3 for its position in the 3-dimensional space, and 3 for its velocity in that space). Its orbit is exactly determined by 6 independent parameters. Usually the following orbital parameters are used:
For a general elliptic orbit, the relations between the axis, eccentricity, and least and largest distance are:
- semi-major axis for elliptic orbits; periapsis distance (in the solar system: perihelion distance) for parabolic or hyperbolic orbits.
- eccentricity
- inclination
- longitude of the periapsis
- longitude of the ascending node
- mean anomaly at the epoch
Note that there are alternative definitions for a "mean radius" or "average distance": if you average the radius over time for one orbit, or over the central angle (true anomaly), then the average distance is a function of both semimajor axis and eccentricity.
- Semimajor axis = (periapsis + apoapsis)/2 = geometric mean radius
- Periapsis = semimajor axis × (1 - eccentricity) = least distance
- Apoapsis = semimajor axis × (1 + eccentricity) = largest distance
Orbital Decay
If some part of a body's orbit enters an atmosphere, its orbit can decay because of drag. Each periapsis the object scrapes the air, losing energy. Each time, the orbit grows more eccentric (less circular) because the object loses sideways motion. Eventually, the periapsis of the orbit drops low enough that the body hits the surface or burns in the atmosphere.
The bounds of an atmosphere vary wildly. During solar maxima, the Earth's atmosphere causes drag up to a hundred kilometers higher than during solar minimums.
Some satellites with long conductive tethers can also decay because of electromagnetic drag from the Earth's magnetic field. Basically, the wire cuts the magnetic field, and acts as a generator. The wire moves electrons from the near vacuum on one end to the near-vacuum on the other end. The orbital energy is converted to heat in the wire.
Another method of artificially influencing an orbit is through the use of solar sails or magnetic sails. These forms of propulsion require no propellant or energy input, and so can be used indefinitely. See statite for one such proposed use.
Orbital period
The period of an orbit is
Where P is the orbital period, a is the sum of the semi-major axes of the ellipses in which the centers of the bodies move (which is equal to their constant separation for circular orbits), M1 and M2 are the masses of the bodies, and G is the gravitational constant.
Earth orbits
(this not a complete list).
- Low Earth orbit
- Intermediate circular orbit
- Geostationary orbit
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Polar orbit
Scaling
In the case of gravity, scaling of distances (including sizes of bodies, while keeping the densities the same) gives similar orbits without scaling the time: if for example distances are halved, masses are divided by 8, gravitational forces by 16 and gravitational accelerations by 2. Hence the duration of one revolution remains the same. Similarly, when an object is dropped from a tower, the time it takes to fall to the ground remains the same with a scale model of the tower on a scale model of the earth.
Role in the Evolution of Atomic Theory
When atomic structure was first probed experimentally early in the twentieth century, an early picture of the atom portrayed it as a miniature solar system bound by the coulomb force rather than by gravity. This was inconsistent with electrodynamics and the model was progressively refined as quantum theory evolved, but there is a legacy of the picture in the term orbital for the wave function of a energetically bound electron state.
See also:
- Retrograde motion
- Orbital period
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Orbit."
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In mathematics, an orbit is a concept in group theory. Consider a group G acting on a set X. The orbit of an element x of X is the set of elements of X to which x can be moved by the elements of G; it is denoted by Gx. That is
The orbits of a group action are the equivalence classes of the equivalence relation on X defined by x ~ y iff there exists g in G with x = g.y. As a consequence, every element of X belongs to one and only one orbit.
If two elements x and y belong to the same orbit, then their stabilizer subgroups Gx and Gy are isomorphic. More precisely: if y = g.x, then the inner automorphism of G given by h |-> ghg-1 maps Gx to Gy.
If both G and X are finite, then the size of any orbit is a factor of the order of the group G by the orbit-stabilizer theorem.
The set of all orbits is denoted by X/G. Burnside's lemma gives a formula that allows to calculate the number of orbits.
See also:
- group action
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Orbit (mathematics)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ORBIT | English | On-Line Retrieval of Bibliographic Information,Timeshared | N/A |
| ORB | English | Orbit Radio Broadcasting | N/A |
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Synonyms: OrbitSynonyms: ambit (n), area (n), arena (n), celestial orbit (n), compass (n), cranial orbit (n), domain (n), electron orbit (n), eye socket (n), field (n), orbital cavity (n), range (n), reach (n), scope (n), sphere (n), revolve (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ascent | Verb: ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; float up; bubble up; aspire. |
Circularity | Circle, circlet, ring, areola, hoop, roundlet, annulus, annulet, bracelet, armlet; ringlet; eye, loop, wheel; cycle, orb, orbit, rundle, zone, belt, cordon, band; contrate wheel, crown wheel; hub; nave; sash, girdle, cestus, cincture, baldric, fillet, fascia, wreath, garland; crown, corona, coronet, chaplet, snood, necklace, collar; noose, lasso, lassoo. |
Height | Verb: be high; Adjective: tower, soar, command; hover, hover over, fly over;orbit, be in orbit; cap, culminate; overhang, hang over, impend, beetle, bestride, ride, mount; perch, surmount; cover; overtop; (be superior); stand on tiptoe. |
Become high; Adjective: grow higher, grow taller; upgrow; rise; (ascend);send into orbit. | |
Interment | Funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity; kneel, passing bell, tolling; dirge. (lamentation); cypress; orbit, dead march, muffled drum; mortuary, undertaker, mute; elegy; funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon; epitaph. |
Method | Path, road, route, course; line of way, line of road; trajectory, orbit, track, beat, tack. |
Navigation | Fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight; wing one's flight, wing one's way; aviate; parachute, jump, glide. |
Adverb: under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam; on the wing, in flight, in orbit. | |
Regression | Send; send off, let off, fire off; discharge, shoot; launch, release, send forth, let fly; put in orbit, send into orbit, launch into orbit dash. |
World | Colures, equator, ecliptic, orbit. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Orbit |
| English words defined with "orbit": celestial orbit ♦ geostationary orbit, geosynchronous orbit ♦ inclination of an orbit ♦ orbit period ♦ Quadrature of an orbit. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "orbit": constant sunlight ratio orbit ♦ equatorial orbit ♦ heliosynchronous orbit, Hohmann orbit, hyperbolic orbit ♦ inertial orbit, intermediate orbit ♦ Larmor orbit, low earth orbit, lunar orbit ♦ Orbit Evisceration, orbit giving constant sunlight ratio, osculating orbit ♦ parking orbit, polar orbit ♦ retrograde orbit ♦ stationary orbit, Sun synchronous orbit, sun-synchronous orbit, Synchronous orbit ♦ Walking orbit. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "orbit": Orbitolites. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Orbit" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (orbit), Indonesian (orbit), Portuguese (Orbit), Romanian (infatuated). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm going to put Galaxy into orbit. (Our Man Flint; writing credit: Hal Fimberg) I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. That's the only way to be sure (Aliens; writing credit: James Cameron; David Giler) The National Space Administration informs us that Uncle Sam's Com-Sat 4 satellite is in a rapidly decaying orbit. That's their way of saying a ton of angry space trash is heading back home at fifteen thousand miles an hour (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim) We'll be trapped in orbit there (Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before; writing credit: Samuel A. Peeples) | |
Lyrics | As the orbit of your hips (Elevation; performing artist: U2) | |
Movie/TV Titles | From Orbit to Obit (1967) The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962) Sax's Final Orbit (1997) Orbit (1996) Im Orbit (1991) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "Orrery" (movie) by Marijke van Gans. Watch Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit the Sun, while the Moon orbits Earth. From inside DPGraph, click on Edit for more information. |  | "Elliptical Orbit" (movie) by Hassan Sedaghat. Use the Scrollbar to vary A, B, and C. |
 | Lunar Prospector in orbit around moon. Credit: NASA. |  | Astronaut John Glenn During His First Orbit in Friendship 7. Credit: NASA. |
 | "Spider" in Earth Orbit. Credit: NASA. |  | View of Africa and Saudi Arabia from Apollo 17.Probably the most requested picture of the Earth, this picture was taken by the Apollo17 astronauts as they left earth orbit en route to the Moon. Taken on Dec. 7, 1972,it was the first time that the trajectory of an Apollo mission enabled a view ofthe south pole. Credit: NASA. |
 | This image was taken by Clementine as it came over the north lunar pole at thecompletion of mapping orbit 102 on March 13, 1994. The angular separation between lunar horizon and Earth has been reduced for illustration purposes.The large crater at the bottom of the image is Plaskett (180 W longitude, 82 N latitude).(A version of this image with just the Earth in the image is available on theNSSDC Photo Gallery: Earth page.). Credit: NASA. |  | Artist's rendition of GOES D/E/F series of satellites in orbit. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
 | An early image from Applications Technology Satellite 1 (ATS-1). This satellite was launched into orbit on December 7, 1966 and was the prototype for the GOES series of satellites as well as for many modern communications satellites. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | Atlas II/Centaur carries GOES-L into orbit. |
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| "Candy pills 3" by Nick Lobeck Commentary: "A sweet advertisment gift from swisscom at the orbit 2002. <br>taste red and blue." |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Synthesized orbit music. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The very globe continually transcends and translates itself, and becomes winged in its orbit. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Ordinarily an oxygen molecule, like other molecules, has an even number of electrons in orbit. (references) | |
However, the injection of muscles that are difficult to identify such as those in the orbit, the larynx, and the pterygoid area, and any muscle in obese subjects, is best accomplished with simultaneous hollow needle electrode recordings. (references) | ||
Business | The first Ukrainian space exploration satellite "cn-1" was placed into orbit in 1995. "Libid" is commercial, aimed at satisfying Ukraine's and neighboring countries' need for TV and radio broadcasting, data transmission and telecommunications. (references) | |
The American - Canadian Company, Orbcomm initiated a new satellite service in Ukraine, on February 2000. The start up was possible because the Ukrainian Orbcomm subsidiary Transexpo received licenses and frequencies for data transmission based on a network of low orbit satellites. (references) | ||
Economic History | Saudi Arabia | The networks include Orbit Communications and ShowTime. (references) |
Hungary | As Hungary began to pull away from the Soviet orbit, the United States offered assistance and expertise to help establish a constitution, a democratic political system, and a plan for a free market economy. (references) | |
Travel | Thailand | Thailand is a member of the International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium, and maintains 2 ground stations connected to satellites over the Pacific and Indian oceans to provide convenient radio communication services . On December 17, 1992, THAICOM, the first Thai national satellite, was launched into orbit followed by THAICOM 2 on October 8, 1994, and THAICOM 3 on April 16, 1997. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit. When David said: "All men are liars," Dave, Himself a liar, fibbed like any thief. Perhaps he thought to weaken disbelief By proof that even himself was not a slave To Truth; though I suspect the aged knave Had been of all her servitors the chief Had he but known a fig's reluctant leaf Is more than e'er she wore on land or wave. No, David served not Naked Truth when he Struck that sledge-hammer blow at all his race; Nor did he hit the nail upon the head: For reason shows that it could never be, And the facts contradict him to his face. Men are not liars all, for some are dead. Bartle Quinker |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Today this country is ahead in the science and technology of space, while the Soviet Union is ahead in the capacity to lift large vehicles into orbit. |
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| "Orbit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.83% of the time. "Orbit" is used about 658 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.83% | 591 | 10,755 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.55% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.55% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.61% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.3% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.15% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 658 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Orbit International Corp. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "orbit": celestial orbit ♦ comet orbit ♦ comet's orbit ♦ constant sunlight ratio orbit ♦ cranial orbit ♦ earth orbit ♦ electron orbit ♦ equatorial orbit ♦ evisceration of orbit ♦ exenteration of the orbit ♦ geostationary orbit ♦ geosynchronous orbit ♦ get into orbit ♦ go into orbit ♦ heliosynchronous orbit ♦ hyperbolic orbit ♦ in orbit ♦ inclination of an orbit ♦ launch into orbit ♦ launch into orbit dash ♦ launching into orbit ♦ low earth orbit ♦ low earth orbit satellite ♦ Orbit Evisceration ♦ orbit giving constant sunlight ratio ♦ orbit of the eye ♦ orbit period ♦ orbit point ♦ parabolic orbit ♦ parking orbit ♦ pole orbit ♦ put in orbit ♦ put into orbit ♦ putting into orbit ♦ quadrature of an orbit ♦ quantum orbit ♦ send into orbit ♦ solar orbit. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "orbit": spin-orbit. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
orbit | 2,024 | cartoon cheat orbit | 39 |
cartoon code orbit | 575 | explorer orbit | 39 |
cartoon orbit | 560 | code new orbit | 38 |
code orbit | 413 | gum orbit | 37 |
orbit sprinkler | 175 | cyberspace orbit | 37 |
orbit travel | 171 | orbit point | 28 |
orbit ufo | 157 | cartoon code galore orbit | 27 |
cartoon code network orbit | 135 | orbit valve | 27 |
dark orbit | 89 | cartoon code ctoon orbit | 22 |
william orbit | 63 | shoei rf 900 orbit | 21 |
orbit irrigation | 57 | joe rocket orbit polo shirt | 21 |
orbit satellite tv | 55 | orbit sprinkler system | 21 |
cartoon code new orbit | 55 | shoei rf900 orbit helmet | 20 |
cartoon orbit point | 46 | com orbit | 20 |
satellite orbit | 46 | offer orbit | 19 |
orbit room | 44 | orbit magazine | 19 |
earth orbit | 42 | orbit tanning bed | 17 |
moon orbit | 42 | airline orbit | 16 |
cartoon network orbit | 40 | mars orbit | 16 |
liberian orbit | 39 | random orbit sander | 16 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "orbit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | baan (course, path, playground, race-course, road, route, running, running track, track, trajectory, way, width). (various references) | |
Albanian | orbitë (circle, orb, path), sferë e veprimtarisë, kufitë e veprimtarisë, gropë e ujërave të zeza (cesspool, eyehole, sewage's hole), gropë e syrit (eye socket, eyehole). (various references) | |
Arabic | فلك (circuit, orb, sphere), محجر العين (eyehole, orb), مسار الفلك, مدار (hub, orb, path), وقب (socket), وضع في المدار, حجاج العين, حام (hot, hover, plane, roam), دخل المدار, دار (circle, come round, dwelling, go, gyrate, hand round, home, house, operate, orb, pan, parlor, parlour, residence, revolve, rotate, round, screw, spin, spun, swing, swing round, swirl, swivel, turn over, twiddle, twirl, up and about, wheel, whirl, wind), بقي في المدار. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сфера на влияние (circle), кръг на влияние, въвеждам в орбита, орбита (circle, orb, race, socket), очна ябълка (apple, eyeball, globe, orb), пътувам в кръг, излизам в орбита, движа се в кръг, движа се в орбита (orb). (various references) | |
Chinese | 轨道 (Orbital, track), 軌跡 (locus), 軌道 . (various references) | |
Czech | orbitální, obíhat po obìžné dráze, obíhat (circulate, revolve), obìh (circuit, circulation, cycle, flow, revolution, sphere, turn), obìžný (circulating, encyclic, floating), obìžná dráha, oènice, oèní dùlek (eyehole, socket), vypustit na obìžnou dráhu (launch into orbit), sféra vlivu. (various references) | |
Danish | Orbit, omløbsbane, kredsløb (blood-circulation, circuit, circuitry, telecommunication circuit), bane (course, gore, line, path, route, runway, sheeting, trajectory, web). (various references) | |
Dutch | baan (corridor, course, function, job, office, passage, path, post, race-course, road, route, running track, track, trajectory, way, width), oogkas. (various references) | |
Esperanto | orbito. (various references) | |
Farsi | فلک (Bastinado, Heaven, Sky, Sphere), مسیر (Career, Course, Path, Point, Race, Run, Strand, Street, Trade, Trajectory, Traverse, Vector), مدار (Circuit, Pivot, Theme, Zone), قلمرو (Circle, Dominion, Milieu, Scope, Territory, Zone), حدقه (Pupil, Socket), حدودفعالیت (Sphere), دور (Aloof, Around, Away, Circuit, Distant, Meander, Race, Remote, Wheel, Yonder), دایره وارحرکت کردن (Troll), بدورمداری گشتن . (various references) | |
Finnish | Orbit, rata (course, line, track, trajectory), kierros (circuit, detour, lap, revolution, round, turn). (various references) | |
French | orbite (orbits), orbiter. (various references) | |
German | Umlaufbahn, orbit, Kreisbahn (circular path). (various references) | |
Greek | τροχιά (circuit, track, trajectory). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעגילה (circle, cylinder, path, roller), מסלה (course, gangway, road, sow, track, way), מסגרת (bordure, compass, frame, framework, ledge, rim, setting, skeleton, stronghold), לנוע במסלול, הקף ראיה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szemüreg, pálya (bed, course, field, ice run, lane, line, metals, path, run, track). (various references) | |
Indonesian | orbit, edaran (circulated). (various references) | |
Italian | orbita (chassis, circle, circular path, eye socket, eyehole, frame, railroad, railway, scope, socket). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 軌道 (railroad track). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きどう (air duct, art of shogi, deceptive methods, maneuver, questionable means, railroad track, respiratory tract, starting, startup). (various references) | |
Korean | 궤도 (Orbital). (various references) | |
Manx | cruinlaghey, cruinlagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orbitay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | órbita (circle, orbiting, path). (various references) | |
Romanian | orbitã (circle, eyehole, range, scope, sphere), traiectorie (path, trajectory). (various references) | |
Russian | орбита (orb, race). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | orbita, obletati (fly round), putanja (path, tracing, trajectory), leteti po orbiti, kružiti (circle, go about), izbaciti u orbitu. (various references) | |
Spanish | órbita (path, socket). (various references) | |
Swedish | kretslopp (circulation, cycle, rotation, round). (various references) | |
Thai | โคจร, วิถีโคจร, ขอบเขต (border, boundary, circuit, end, extent, limit, reach, scope, sweep, tether). (various references) | |
Turkish | yörüngeye sokmak (put into orbit), yörüngesine almak (put into orbit), yörüngede dönmek, yörünge izlemek, yörünge (circle, path, track, trajectory), rota izlemek, göz çukuru (eyehole, socket), göz (blinker, cell, compartment, Cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, cuddy, drawer, eye, eyehole, glim, ocular, ophthalmic, optic, optical, opto-, orb, orbital, peeper, sight), faaliyet sahası, etki alanı (circle, demesne, incidence, radius, sweep). (various references) | |
Turkmen | orbita (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сфера діяльності (service, walk), рухатися по орбіті, розмах діяльності, виходити на орбіту, виводити на орбіту, орбіта (orb), очна западина, очна плівка у птахів, обертатися по орбіті. (various references) | |
Welsh | trogylch, cylchdro, chwyldro (rotation). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ambitu, ambitum, cavea, circuli, circulis, circulo, circulos, circulum, circulus, circum, orbis, orbita. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "orbit": orbital, orbitals, orbited, orbiter, orbiters, orbiting, orbits. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "orbit": deorbit. (additional references) | |
Words containing "orbit": deorbited, deorbiting, deorbits, exorbitance, exorbitances, exorbitant, exorbitantly, interorbital, postorbital, sorbitol, sorbitols, suborbital, supraorbital. (additional references) | |
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"Orbit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arbit, Corbit, forbit, gor'it, hobrit, Morabit, morbit, mordbity, Morfit, Morfitt, Mrbi, Norbit, Noribic, obiit, Oraba, orba, orbat, Orbath, Orbec, orbem, orbi, orbie, orbil, orbin, orbis, orbita, orcish, ordit, oreit, orib, orit, Oritt, orkish, orni, Orritt, Robat, Robaut, robic, Rohit, Rokit, rosbif, Torbett, urit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "orbit" (pronounced ô"rbut) |
| 3 | -b u t | abbot, celibate, cohabit, exhibit, habit, halibut, inhabit, inhibit, jackrabbit, obit, prohibit, sherbet. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: bort, brio, brit, obit, riot, roti, tiro, tori, trio. | |
-2 letters: bio, bit, bot, bro, obi, orb, ort, rib, rob, rot, tor. | |
-3 letters: bi, bo, it, or, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: bistro, orbits, probit. | |
+2 letters: airboat, bigotry, biotron, bistort, bistros, bornite, bothria, bristol, burrito, deorbit, orbiest, orbital, orbited, orbiter, probits, probity, reitbok, ribwort, robotic, strobic, strobil, taborin, thrombi, vibrato. | |
+3 letters: abattoir, aborting, abortion, abortive, airboats, arborist, baritone, biforate, biometry, biotrons, birdshot, birrotch, bisector, bistorts, bistoury, bistroic, blottier, boracite, borating, bornites, botchier, bothrium, botryoid, botrytis, bowsprit, bristols, brookite, burritos, deorbits, fibrotic, fireboat, frostbit, laborite, libretto, obituary, obtainer, obviator, orbitals, orbiters, orbiting, oribatid, outbribe, overbite, prohibit, reitboks, reobtain, ribworts, ringbolt, robotics, robotism, robotize, sobriety, sorbitol, strobila, strobile, strobili, strobils, taborine, taboring, taborins, thrombin, trilobal, trilobed, tuberoid, tubiform, twinborn, vibrator, vibratos. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
