Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of orbit is as below...

Regrede :: Regrede (v. i.) To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit..

Orbit :: Orbit (n.) The skin which surrounds the eye of a bird.

Eccentric :: Eccentric (n.) A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius..

Exorbitance :: Exorbitance (n.) Alt. of Exorbitanc.

Node :: Node (n.) One of the two points where the orbit of a planet, or comet, intersects the ecliptic, or the orbit of a satellite intersects the plane of the orbit of its primary..

Cycle :: Cycle (n.) An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.

Ophthalmic :: Ophthalmic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the eye; ocular; as the ophthalmic, or orbitonasal, nerve, a division of the trigeminal, which gives branches to the lachrymal gland, eyelids, nose, and forehead..

Radius Vector :: Radius vector (n.) An ideal straight line joining the center of an attracting body with that of a body describing an orbit around it, as a line joining the sun and a planet or comet, or a planet and its satellite..

Yacare :: Yacare (n.) A South American crocodilian (Jacare sclerops) resembling the alligator in size and habits. The eye orbits are connected together, and surrounded by prominent bony ridges. Called also spectacled alligator, and spectacled cayman..

Apastron :: Apastron (n.) That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary.

Malar :: Malar (n.) The cheek bone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit..

Arrogation :: Arrogation (n.) The act of arrogating, or making exorbitant claims; the act of taking more than one is justly entitled to..

Disorb :: Disorb (v. t.) To throw out of the proper orbit; to unsphere.

Plane :: Plane (a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator..

Sphere :: Sphere (n.) An orbit, as of a star; a socket..

Superciliary :: Superciliary (a.) Of or pertaining to the eyebrows; supraorbital.

Sun :: Sun (n.) The luminous orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat. Its mean distance from the earth is about 92,500,000 miles, and its diameter about 860,000..

Periastron :: Periastron (n.) That point, in the real or apparent orbit of one star revolving around another, at which the former is nearest to the latter..

Orbitelae :: Orbitelae (n. pl.) A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira..

Infraorbital :: Infraorbital (a.) Below the orbit; as, the infraorbital foramen; the infraorbital nerve..

Random Fonts

Most Popular