'orbit' definitions:
Definition of 'orbit'
(from WordNet)
noun
The (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another; "he plotted the orbit of the moon" [syn: orbit, celestial orbit]
noun
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" [syn: sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena]
noun
An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "a piano has a greater range than the human voice"; "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" [syn: scope, range, reach, orbit, compass, ambit]
noun
The path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom [syn: orbit, electron orbit]
noun
The bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball [syn: eye socket, orbit, cranial orbit, orbital cavity]
verb
Synonyms of 'orbit'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Earth insertion,
- 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,
- LEM,
- line,
- LM,
- 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,
- O,
- 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