Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or following a trajectory of less than one orbit. Used of a rocket or spacecraft.
- adjective Anatomy Situated on or below the floor of the orbit of the eye.
- noun A suborbital part, such as a bone, nerve, or cartilage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated below the orbit of the eye or on the floor of that orbit; infra-orbital; subocular. Also suboptic, suborbitar.
- noun A special formation of parts below, along the lower border of, or on the floor of the orbit of the eye.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Situated under or below the orbit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not reaching
orbit ; having a trajectory that does not reachescape velocity and so must return to ground eventually. - adjective anatomy Below the
orbit of theeye
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or involving a trajectory of less than one orbit
- adjective situated on or below the floor of the eye socket
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Examples
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The real market in suborbital flight is going to be tourism, which could be quite a significant market ... but that's something that really doesn't need NASA; it's a market that is developing on its own quite nicely.
Lack of Discipline = Slaughter of the Innocents - NASA Watch 2008
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"Bezos 'Seattle-based Blue Origin suborbital space venture is starting the process to build an aerospace testing and operations center on a portion of the Corn Ranch, a 165,000-acre spread that the 41-year-old billionaire purchased north of Van Horn, Texas."
Boing Boing: January 9, 2005 - January 15, 2005 Archives 2005
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Trans-oceanic flights for people and freight in suborbital space vehicles will be the developing norm.
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Burt Rutan and his team at Scaled Composites did it once again this morning, sending the rocket-propelled glider SpaceShipOne 63 miles above earth, into the nether regions of the atmosphere known as suborbital space.
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Since it stops short of making a full orbit around Earth, SpaceShipTwo is known as a suborbital vehicle.
FOXNews.com 2010
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On Jan. 12-13, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory researcher and 11 other scientists will meet at the National AeroSpace Training and Research Center near Philadelphia, where they'll learn to work and conduct experiments in the wispy upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere known as suborbital space.
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At least Eric sees that another region of space i.e. "suborbital" is a place where market forces can create excitement and value.
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At least Eric sees that another region of space i.e. "suborbital" is a place where market forces can create excitement and value.
NASA Watch Keith Cowing 2010
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The gloomy conclusion of these studies was that while certainty was impossible until the horrific moment, it looked like a suborbital nuclear air blast could zap our system into uselessness.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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A Morse shot of Alan Shepard ran on Life's cover in May 1961, when Shepard's suborbital flight made him America's first man in space.
David Schonauer: Icons: Fifty Years Ago, a Space-Age Photo That Transcended the Television Age David Schonauer 2012
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