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orbital

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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 and probability density of an electron at any point in an atom or molecule.
  • 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

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2003 2003

  • They did not obtain orbital velocity (would need a whole order of magnitude increase in thrust to get there).

    X-51 Waverider Set to Fly This Fall - NASA Watch 2009

  • “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 ...

    Genre Classics: Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks (Book Review) 2010

  • 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.

    Less Pizza, More NASA - NASA Watch 2009

  • 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.

    Oculoplastic Fellowship 2010

  • 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.

    MIND MELD: The Best Spaceships in Written Science Fiction 2010

  • 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.

    China Makes Giant Leap With Space Docking Brian Spegele 2011

  • 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.

    Columbia's Last Flight 2003

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