The Moons orbit around the Earth takes nearly one month to complete.
In the post WWII era, several eastern European countries came into the orbit of the Soviet Union.
The Earth orbits the Sun.
The harried mother had a cloud of children orbiting her, asking for sweets.
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Orbit — (lat. orbita „Geleise“) bezeichnet: in der Raumfahrt die Umlaufbahn eines Objektes um einen Himmelskörper darauf bezogen die Umlaufbahn eines Satelliten um die Erde, siehe Satellitenorbit in der Mathematik die Menge aller Punkte, in die ein… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Orbit 1 — Author(s) Edited by Damon Knight … Wikipedia
orbit — [ôr′bit] n. [MFr orbite < ML orbita < L, path, track < orbis, a circle, wheel] 1. the bony cavity containing the eye; eye socket 2. [L orbita] a) the actual or imaginary path taken by a celestial body during its periodic revolution… … English World dictionary
Orbit — Or bit, n. [L. orbita a track or rut made by a wheel, course, circuit, fr. orbis a circle: cf. F. orbite. See 2d {Orb}.] 1. (Astron.) The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
ORBit — is a CORBA 2.4 compliant Object Request Broker (ORB). It features mature C, C++ and Python bindings, and less developed bindings for Perl, Lisp, Pascal, Ruby, and Tcl. Most of the code is distributed under the LGPL license, although the IDL… … Wikipedia
Orbit — (в переводе с англ. «орбита») может означать: Марку жевательной резинки фирмы Wrigley Orbit Downloader программу для закачки файлов из Интернет. Orbit@home проект распределённых вычислений. См. также Орбита (значения) … … Википедия
orbit — [n1] circuit, revolution apogee, circle, circumgyration, course, curve, cycle, ellipse, lap, locus, path, pattern, perigee, rotation, round, track, trajectory; concepts 436,738 orbit [n2] influence, domain ambit, area, arena, boundary, bounds,… … New thesaurus
orbit — ► NOUN 1) the regularly repeated elliptical course of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star or planet. 2) a field of activity or influence. 3) the path of an electron round an atomic nucleus. 4) Anatomy the eye socket. ► VERB (orbited,… … English terms dictionary
Orbit — Orbit, feinkörniger Diorit … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
orbit — index ambit, area (province), bailiwick, capacity (sphere), circuit, province, purview … Law dictionary
Orbit — Orbit,der:⇨Umlaufbahn … Das Wörterbuch der Synonyme
