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OSCULATING ORBIT

Specialty Definition: OSCULATING ORBIT

DomainDefinition

Aerospace

The ellipse that a satellite would follow after a specific time t (the epoch of osculation) if all forces other than central inverse-square forces ceased to act from time t on.An osculating orbit is tangent to the real, perturbed, orbit and has the same velocity at the point of tangency. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: OSCULATING ORBIT

Specialty definitions using "OSCULATING ORBIT": osculating elements. (references)

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Modern Translation: OSCULATING ORBIT

Language Translations for "OSCULATING ORBIT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

oskulerende bane. (various references)

   

French

  

orbite osculatrice. (various references)

   

German

  

oskulierende Bahn. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εφαπτομενική τροχιά. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

osculatingay orbitay

   

Portuguese

  

órbita osculante. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

órbita osculatriz. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: OSCULATING ORBIT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-g-i-i-l-n-o-o-r-s-t-t-u"

-3 letters: lubrications, strobilation, tribulations, urbanologist.

-4 letters: abortionist, abstricting, bilocations, brutalising, cogitations, inoculators, lubricating, lubrication, obligations, obscuration, obstructing, obstruction, obturations, outboasting, rusticating, rustication, staurolitic, subrogation, subtotaling, subtracting, subtraction, tribologist, tribulating, tribulation, urtications.

-5 letters: abolitions, absolution, altruistic, astricting, bilocation, binoculars, bratticing, caliginous, cartoonist, clangorous, coalitions, cogitation, contagious, contraltos, corotating, curtailing, granulitic, incubators, inglorious, inoculator, instigator, librations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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