to make an orbit

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• orbit — n. 1) to make an orbit around, of, round (the spaceship made five orbits of the moon) 2) in; into orbit (to put a satellite into orbit) * * * [ ɔːbɪt] of round (the spaceship made five orbits of the moon) into orbit (to put a satellite into… …   Combinatory dictionary

• Orbit (anatomy) — The seven bones that articulate to form the orbit. yellow = Frontal bone green = Lacrimal bone brown = Ethmoid bone blue = Zygomatic bone purple = Maxillary bone aqua = Palatine bone red …   Wikipedia

• Orbit (anthology series) — Orbit was a long running series of anthologies of new fiction edited by Damon Knight, often featuring work by such writers as Gene Wolfe, Joanna Russ, R. A. Lafferty, and Kate Wilhelm, who was married to Knight. The anthologies tended toward the… …   Wikipedia

• Orbit Magazine — (or Orbit) was a Detroit area publication that billed itself as an alt newsweekly, with neither news or a weekly schedule. Contents 1 History 2 Pop References 3 Legacy 4 References …   Wikipedia

• Orbit (band) — Orbit is a Boston, Massachusetts based power trio. Formed in 1994, the band went on hiatus in late 2001. Their initial releases were on drummer Buckley s own Lunch Records label before the band moved to major label A M Records. They completed… …   Wikipedia

• Orbit of the Moon — Not to be confused with Lunar orbit in the sense of a selenocentric orbit, that is, an orbit around the Moon The Moon completes its orbit around the Earth in approximately 27.3 days (a sidereal month). The Earth and Moon orbit about their… …   Wikipedia

• Orbit — This article is about orbits in celestial mechanics, due to gravity. For other uses, see Orbit (disambiguation). A satellite orbiting the Earth has a tangential velocity and an inward acceleration …   Wikipedia

• Orbit portrait — In mathematics, an orbit portrait is a combinatorial tool used in complex dynamics for understanding the behavior of one complex dimensional quadratic maps. In simple words one can say that it is : a list of external angles for which rays… …   Wikipedia

• orbit — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ circular, elliptical ▪ eccentric ▪ Mercury s orbit is fairly eccentric. ▪ high, low …   Collocations dictionary

• orbit — I UK [ˈɔː(r)bɪt] / US [ˈɔrbɪt] noun Word forms orbit : singular orbit plural orbits * 1) [countable] astronomy the path that is taken by an object moving around a larger object in space the planet s orbit around the sun in orbit (= moving around… …   English dictionary

• orbit — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin orbita, from Latin, rut, track, probably from orbis Date: 15th century the bony socket of the eye • orbital adjective II. noun Etymology: Latin orbita path, rut, orbit Date: 1696 …   New Collegiate Dictionary