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orbital
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orbital \Or"bit*al\, a. Of or pertaining to an orbit. ``Orbital revolution.'' --J. D. Forbes. Orbital index (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 ...
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An orbital (also known as a circle line or loop ) in the context of metro systems is a metro or subway line encircling a city or metropolitan area . Such lines relieve the loads on other lines within the orbital by providing alternative connections among ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, with reference to eye sockets; 1839 with reference to heavenly bodies; from orbit (n.) + -al (1).
Usage examples of orbital.
He and his agemates had hunted in the sea for tasty mirrat, small finned swimmers which only migrated through the area at that time of the orbital cycle.
Harry Baldachin wheezed and peered out from under his thickening orbital ridges.
Too much like that big-arena stuff Mobius Caduceus did up in the orbital habitat.
Only the Eldern was silent, hobbling slowly toward the orbital view of Min-Tutopa.
I had to hang up, but half an hour later Yuri Glinkov, their director of operations, was on the line, promising me that his huge Energia boosters could do anything I wanted them to do, yes even get an orbital habitat into geosynchronous orbit.
FROM AN ASSOCIATED PREss BULLETIN: Space Agency and UpLink International Pledge to Keep ISS on Track Despite Shuttle Disaster Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral-In a joint statement released late this afternoon through NASA press spokesman Craig Yarborough , agency officials and Roger Gordian, whose firm, UpLink International , is chief contractor of the ISS project, have declared their undivided commitment to resuming assembly of the orbital station as soon as possible.
Also it has not reached its final orbital location, which is the opposite Lagrangian point.
This orbital stalemate was completely unlike the war games Vor enjoyed playing with the jihadi crewmen on patrol, or the amusing challenges he and the robot Seurat had set for each other years ago, during long voyages between stars.
As they reached the bright, stunning heart of the orbital, Koi stirred and whimpered.
Tammy was probably asking herself that very question, sitting in orbital detention light years from Eugene, while Derek drank warm tangy saki with a semi-nude mammalogist curled in his lap.
A long way below the suited man, at the center of whatever convoluted orbital path his body was now following, Avalon still rolled on about its business, gobbling megatons of infalling dust and gas, not in the least perturbed by whatever nearby antics some microscopic beings and machines might be up to.
Avon has one moon, Nepeta, 3,000km in diameter, with an orbital altitude of 437,000km.
Citizen supervisors who had been following her dash from the orbital scramjet port in Alexandria.
The nearest populated planetary system, Septagon Central, was far enough away to be saved by the heavy radiation shielding on its orbital republics.
After about a century of bloodshed and the eventual suppression of the last libertarian fanatics, the Septagon orbitals had gravitated toward the free-est form of civilization that was possible in such a hostile environment: which meant intensive schooling, conscript service in the environmental maintenance crews, and zero tolerance for anyone who thought that hanging separately was better than hanging together.