Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated in front of the eyes. Also
antorbital .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Anat.) Same as
antorbital .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective astronautics Referring to the period before
orbit is achieved.
Etymologies
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ante- + orbital
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Examples
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The skull has an anteorbital vacuity, with a small anteorbital fossa.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Skull: anteorbital fossa _very_ shallow, nasals converging to a point, and rather elongated (_Sir Victor Brooke_, 'P.Z. S.,' 1873, p. 547).
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Sections 3 and 4 are transverse, nearly vertical, sections of the same specimens, immediately in front of their 2d molars and anteorbital margins.
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'This measurement is taken in a vertical plane passing close in front of the anteorbital borders.
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