Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to an orbit.
- noun The wave function of an electron in an atom or molecule, indicating the electron's probable location.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology and anatomy, of or pertaining to the orbit of the eye; orbitar or orbitary; circumocular.
- The thin horizontal plate of the frontal hone on both sides forming the roof of the orbit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an orbit.
- adjective (Anat.) in the skull, the ratio of the vertical height to the transverse width of the orbit, which is taken as the standard, equal to 100.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to an
orbit . - adjective Of or relating to the
eye socket (eyehole ). - noun physics A specification of the
energy andprobability density of anelectron at any point in anatom ormolecule . - noun An orbital motorway.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the eye socket
- adjective of or relating to an orbit
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Examples
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They are going to focus on what they call the orbital space plane, which a vehicle just to carry humans into orbit, so that we could get people up to the space station.
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They did not obtain orbital velocity (would need a whole order of magnitude increase in thrust to get there).
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“My clients sent me here to request that you surrender your targeting equipment and cease calling in orbital strikes.”
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Along the way he employs with a crew of freelancers, gets involved in a kind of relationship, excapes from a mad prophet that rules over a tropical island, witnesess a grand destruction of an orbital, is on a reckless run from Culture agents and many more exciting things ...
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If NASA would have developed a 'people shuttle' transport like the Delta Clipper or other reusable manned space craft concepts then they could then focus on funding the heavy lift vehicles needed to build the infrastructure needed for colonies on the Moon, Mars, and in orbital space.
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Along the way he employs with a crew of freelancers, gets involved in a kind of relationship, excapes from a mad prophet that rules over a tropical island, witnesess a grand destruction of an orbital, is on a reckless run from Culture agents and many more exciting things ...
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Additional experience in orbital surgery is also available at Columbia University.
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For Z Zcr, if the innermost orbital is not filled, the electric field of the nucleus will pull an electron out of the vacuum, resulting in the spontaneous emission of a positron.
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China's burgeoning manned space program aims for a long-term orbital foothold even as the U.S. has drawn down its manned space operations, and as Western officials and analysts worry about a Chinese military build-up in space.
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It is a simple thing, a brief burn by the twin orbital maneuvering rockets against the direction of flight, which slows the shuttle by perhaps 200 mph.
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The finite and delicate realm of orbital space, characterized by anthropogenic space object orbits, holds a capacity akin to the lanes of a highway, each lane accommodating a limited number of satellites and space objects. This capacity, known as orbital carrying capacity, defines the sustainable limit of occupancy within orbital space.
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