Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
orbital .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective describing a circle; moving in a circle
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Examples
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Wherever we can trace the law of periodicity we are strongly impressed with the idea of rotatory or orbitual motion.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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But I have given astrology considerable attention, and if you will examine with me some observations and calculations that I have made, I think you will be with me in my novel opinion, that this earth may prove to be a sphere and in orbitual motion, with its seven planets, about the sun; its annual progress in its circuit giving us seasons, its diurnal motion night and day!
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And this mighty movement, however we may more particularly regard it, is a vast harmonious one, shared in by the several orbitual systems.
Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator. 1823-1886 1855
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If its mass had been of equal amount with the earth's mass, its attraction would have influenced the earth's movement in a like degree in return, and the earth would have been so held back in its orbitual progress in consequence, that the year would have been lengthened to the extent of three hours.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 Various 1836
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{9} The orbitual revolutions of the satellites of Uranus have not as yet been clearly scanned.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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