ORBIT
\ˈɔːbɪt], \ˈɔːbɪt], \ˈɔː_b_ɪ_t]\
Definitions of ORBIT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball
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the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom
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move in an orbit; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus"
By Princeton University
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the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball
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the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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An orb or ball.
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The skin which surrounds the eye of a bird.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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An orb or ball.
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The skin which surrounds the eye of a bird.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The path described by a celestial body in the heavens: the bony cavity for the eyeball: the skin round the eye.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The path or course described by a celestial body in the heavens; the cavity in the skull containing the eyeball.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The bony cavity in which the eye is situated ; the skin round the eye of a bird ; the hollow in the arthropod cephalothorax in which the eye-stalk rises.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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The circular cavities are so called, which lodge the organs of sight. The orbits or orbitar fossae or cavities, conchi are situate at the upper part of the face, and are composed of seven bones, viz.:-the frontal, above; the palate and superior maxillary, below; the sphenoid and malar, externally; and the ethmoid and lachrymal, internally. The orbit is filled by the globe of the eye, with its different accessory parts-muscles, nerves, vessels, the lachrymal gland, &c. Its margin is termed margo orbitalis.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
