Orbit

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Orbit \Or"bit\, n. [L. orbita a track or rut made by a wheel,
     course, circuit, fr. orbis a circle: cf. F. orbite. See 2d
     {Orb}.]
     1. (Astron.) The path described by a heavenly body in its
        periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit
        of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.


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     2. An orb or ball. [Rare & Improper]
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              Roll the lucid orbit of an eye.       --Young.
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     3. (Anat.) The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye
        and its appendages are situated.
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     4. (Zool.) The skin which surrounds the eye of a bird.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  orbit
       n 1: the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial
            body in its revolution about another; "he plotted the
            orbit of the moon" [syn: {celestial orbit}]
       2: a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere
          is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's
          out of my orbit" [syn: {sphere}, {domain}, {area}, {field},
           {arena}]
       3: an area in which something acts or operates or has power or
          control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "the ambit of
          municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this
          article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside
          the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world
          power" [syn: {scope}, {range}, {reach}, {compass}, {ambit}]
       4: the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom [syn:
          {electron orbit}]
       5: the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball [syn: {eye
          socket}, {cranial orbit}, {orbital cavity}]
       v : move in an orbit; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The
           planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the
           nucleus" [syn: {revolve}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  242 Moby Thesaurus words for "orbit":
     Earth insertion, LEM, LM, O, air lane, ambit, annular muscle,
     annulus, aphelion, apogee, area, arena, areola,
     astronomical longitude, attitude-control rocket, aureole,
     autumnal equinox, bailiwick, ball, ballistic capsule, balloon,
     beat, bladder, blob, boll, bolus, border, borderland, bubble, bulb,
     bulbil, bulblet, burn, capsule, celestial equator,
     celestial longitude, celestial meridian, chaplet, circle, circling,
     circuit, circuiteer, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry,
     circularity, circulate, circulation, circumambience,
     circumambiency, circumambulate, circumambulation, circumference,
     circumflexion, circumlocution, circummigrate, circummigration,
     circumnavigate, circumnavigation, circumvent, circus,
     close the circle, closed circle, colures, come full circle,
     compass, constituency, corona, coronet, course, crown, cycle,
     deep-space ship, demesne, department, describe a circle, deviance,
     deviancy, deviation, deviousness, diadem, digression, discipline,
     discus, disk, docking, docking maneuver, domain, dominion,
     ecliptic, ellipsoid, encircle, encompass, equator, equinoctial,
     equinoctial circle, equinoctial colure, equinox, eternal return,
     excursion, excursus, extension, extent, fairy ring, ferry rocket,
     field, flank, flight path, footing, fuel ship, full circle,
     galactic longitude, garland, geocentric longitude,
     geodetic longitude, geoid, girdle, girdle the globe, globe,
     globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, glory, go about, go around,
     go round, go the round, gob, gobbet, great circle, gyre, gyring,
     halo, heliocentric longitude, hemisphere, indirection, injection,
     insertion, itinerary, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, knob, knot,
     lap, lasso, line, logical circle, longitude, loop, looplet,
     lunar excursion module, lunar module, magic circle, make a circuit,
     manned rocket, march, meandering, meridian, module, moon ship,
     multistage rocket, noose, oblate spheroid, orb, orbiting, orblet,
     pale, parking orbit, path, pellet, perigee, perihelion, period,
     precinct, primrose path, prolate spheroid, province, purview,
     radius, reach, realm, reentry, revolution, revolve, ring, road,
     rocket, rondelle, rondure, round, round trip, roundaboutness,
     roundel, rounding, rounds, route, run, saucer, scope, sea lane,
     shortcut, shuttle rocket, skirt, small circle, soft landing,
     solstitial colure, space capsule, space docking, space rocket,
     spacecraft, spaceship, sphere, sphere of influence, spheroid,
     spherule, sphincter, spiral, spiraling, stamping ground,
     subdiscipline, surround, sweep, territory, tour, track,
     trade route, traject, trajectory, trajet, turf, turn, turning,
     vantage, vernal equinox, vicious circle, walk, wheel, wheeling,
     wreath, zodiac, zone
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Orbit
       
          A {Scheme} compiler.
       
          ["Orbit: An Optimising Compiler for Scheme", D.A. Kranz et al,
          SIGPLAN Notices 21(7):281-292 (Jul 1986)].
       
          (1994-10-28)