Definition of orbit

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Orbit (n.) The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.

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Supraorbitar :: Supraorbital (a.) Alt. of Supraorbita.
Postorbital :: Postorbital (n.) A postorbital bone or scale.
Asteroid :: Asteroid (n.) A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.
Postocular :: Postocular (a. & n.) Same as Postorbital.
Absorbition :: Absorbition (n.) Absorption.
Arrogation :: Arrogation (n.) The act of arrogating, or making exorbitant claims; the act of taking more than one is justly entitled to..
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..
Velocity :: Velocity (n.) Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light..
Pteron :: Pteron (n.) The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other..
Orbit :: Orbit (n.) The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon..
Antorbital :: Antorbital (n.) The antorbital bone.
Superciliary :: Superciliary (a.) Of or pertaining to the eyebrows; supraorbital.
Megaseme :: Megaseme (a.) Having the orbital index relatively large; having the orbits narrow transversely; -- opposed to microseme.
Orbitosphenoid :: Orbitosphenoid (n.) The orbitosphenoid bone, which is situated in the orbit on either side of the presphenoid. It generally forms a part of the sphenoid in the adult..
Regrede :: Regrede (v. i.) To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit..
Apogee :: Apogee (n.) That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth.
Trochlea :: Trochlea (n.) A pulley, or a structure resembling a pulley; as, the trochlea, or pulleylike end, of the humerus, which articulates with the ulna; or the trochlea, or fibrous ring, in the upper part of the orbit, through which the superior oblique, or trochlear, muscle of the eye passes..
Frons :: Frons (n.) The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.
Circuit :: Circuit (n.) The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun..
Orbit :: Orbit (n.) An orb or ball.
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