Definition of orbit

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Orbit (n.) An orb or ball.

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Orbitosphenoid :: Orbitosphenoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone..
Orbitosphenoidal :: Orbitosphenoidal (a.) Of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone; orbitosphenoid.
Orbity :: Orbity (n.) Orbation.
Absorbition :: Absorbition (n.) Absorption.
Orb :: Orb (n.) A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit..
Usurious :: Usurious (a.) Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person..
Yacare :: Yacare (n.) A South American crocodilian (Jacare sclerops) resembling the alligator in size and habits. The eye orbits are connected together, and surrounded by prominent bony ridges. Called also spectacled alligator, and spectacled cayman..
Infraorbital :: Infraorbital (a.) Below the orbit; as, the infraorbital foramen; the infraorbital nerve..
Exorbitant :: Exorbitant (a.) Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims..
Exorbitance :: Exorbitance (n.) Alt. of Exorbitanc.
Oculomotor :: Oculomotor (a.) Of or pertaining to the movement of the eye; -- applied especially to the common motor nerves (or third pair of cranial nerves) which supply many of the muscles of the orbit.
Regrede :: Regrede (v. i.) To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit..
Ophryon :: Ophryon (n.) The supraorbital point.
Eccentric :: Eccentric (n.) A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius..
Frons :: Frons (n.) The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.
Antorbital :: Antorbital (a.) Pertaining to, or situated in, the region of the front of the orbit..
Orrery :: Orrery (n.) An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system..
Ultrazodiacal :: Ultrazodiacal (a.) Outside the zodiac; being in that part of the heavens that is more than eight degrees from the ecliptic; as, ultrazodiacal planets, that is, those planets which in part of their orbits go beyond the zodiac..
Velocity :: Velocity (n.) Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light..
Aphelion :: Aphelion (n.) That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion..
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