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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
orbital
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
motion
▪ The orbital motion of the earth provided a causal explanation for why the planets appeared to meander across the sky.
▪ Any and all data regarding lunar orbital motions might be grist for creating the tables navigators needed.
▪ Wave currents are caused by the fact that a wave is an orbital motion which decreases with depth.
▪ The axial spin of the more massive body M tends to carry the tide ahead of the orbital motion.
▪ It is this orbital motion that exhibits the phenomena with which we are concerned.
period
▪ When the orbital period is plotted as a function of time it shows a steady decrease:.
▪ The orbital periods are again mostly about three to five years.
▪ The precision of measurement of the orbital period decay rivals the precision of this prediction.
▪ These asteroids with Earth-crossing orbits and orbital periods greater than one Earth year constitute the Apollo family.
▪ What is its sidereal orbital period around the Earth? 4.
▪ They are families, then, only in the sense that they have similar distances from the Sun and similar orbital periods.
▪ Enke is unusual in that it is the active comet with the shortest known orbital period.
▪ Almost all long-period comets have orbital periods of one hundred thousand years or more.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ According to Newtonian mechanics the orbital decay for an isolated binary consisting of compact stars is expected to be immeasurably small.
▪ Any and all data regarding lunar orbital motions might be grist for creating the tables navigators needed.
▪ Because of these orbital properties, some of these bodies have very short expected orbital lifetimes before colliding with Earth.
▪ Incidentally, there is nothing in the pro-gram that recognizes the existence of orbital families and clustering of impacts.
▪ Inserting the values of the orbital parameters measured by Taylor and his colleagues, given in Section 8.6, yields.
▪ The orbital periods are again mostly about three to five years.
▪ This is still a relatively light machine, but the weight is equivalent to a conventional half-sheet orbital sander.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orbital

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 100.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
orbital

1540s, with reference to eye sockets; 1839 with reference to heavenly bodies; from orbit (n.) + -al (1).

Wiktionary
orbital

a. 1 Of or relating to an orbit. 2 Of or relating to the eye socket (eyehole). n. 1 (label en physics) A specification of the energy and probability density of an electron at any point in an atom or molecule 2 An orbital motorway

WordNet
orbital
  1. adj. of or relating to an orbit; "orbital revolution"; "orbital velocity"

  2. of or relating to the eye socket; "orbital scale"; "orbital arch"

Wikipedia
Orbital

Orbital may refer to:

In chemistry and physics:

  • Atomic orbital
  • Molecular orbital
  • Hybrid orbital
  • Bloch orbital

In astronomy and space flight:

  • Orbit
  • Orbital resonance
  • Orbital period
  • Orbital plane (astronomy)
  • Orbital elements
  • Orbital speed
  • Orbital maneuver
  • Orbital spaceflight

In entertainment:

  • Orbital (band), a UK electronic dance music group
    • Orbital (1991 album) (also known as the "Green Album") by Orbital, released in 1991
    • Orbital 2 (also known as the "Brown Album" or simply "Orbital") by Orbital, released in 1993
  • Orbital (video game), a Game Boy Advance game in the Bit Generations series
  • Orbitals (album), an alternative rock album by Acroma
  • Orbital (comics), a Franco-Belgian science fiction graphic novel series

In other fields:

  • The Orbital, the official student publication of Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Orbital Corporation, an Australian engine technology company
  • Orbital engine
  • Beltway (or orbital road in some regions)
  • Orbital (metro), a rapid transit line usually encircling a city centre
  • Orbital (The Culture), artificial worlds from "The Culture" science fiction universe
  • Orbital Sciences Corporation, a U.S. satellite launch and defense systems corporation
  • Orbital ATK, American aerospace manufacturer formed from the merger of Orbital Sciences Corporation and parts of Alliant Techsystems
  • Orbit (anatomy), also known as the orbital bone
  • Orbital Studios, a digital agency located in Hamilton, Ontario
  • Orbital piercing
  • Orbitofrontal cortex, a part of the brain used for decision making
Orbital (The Culture)

In Iain M. Banks' fictional Culture universe, an Orbital (sometimes also simply called an O or a small ring) is a purpose-built space habitat forming a ring typically around 6 million km (3.7 million miles) in diameter. The rotation of the ring simulates both gravity and a day-night cycle comparable to a planetary body orbiting a star.

Its inhabitants, often numbering many billions, live on the inside of the ring, where continent-sized "plates" have been shaped to provide all sorts of natural environments and climates, often with the aim of producing especially spectacular results.

Orbital (1993 album)

Orbital is the second album from British electronica duo Orbital. In the United States the album had the title Orbital 2 on the spine of the album: in the rest of the world outside the US the album was released without a title, and it is commonly known as The Brown Album to differentiate it from Orbital's similarly untitled 1991 debut album, which had a green cover. It was released in May 1993 and reached the #28 on the UK album charts.

Orbital (band)

Orbital were an English electronic dance music duo from Sevenoaks, Kent, consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll. Their career initially ran from 1989 until 2004, but in 2009 they announced that they would be reforming and headlining The Big Chill, in addition to a number of other live shows in 2009. The band's name was taken from Greater London's orbital motorway, the M25, which was central to the early rave scene and party network in the South East during the early days of acid house. In addition, the cover art on three of their albums features stylised atomic orbitals. Orbital were both critically and commercially successful, and known particularly for their element of live improvisation during shows, a rarity among techno acts. They were initially influenced by early electro and punk rock.

Orbital (1991 album)

Orbital is the first album from Orbital, released in 1991. It is often referred to as the "Green Album", to differentiate it from the band's second album, titled Orbital 2 (known as the "Brown Album"), which bears only the band's name on the cover.

Orbital (comics)

Orbital is a Franco-Belgian comics series written by Sylvain Runberg, illustrated by Serge Pellé and published by Dupuis in French and Cinebook in English.

Orbital (metro)

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 the other lines. In other words, a passenger whose origin and destination are both outside the enclosed central area but on different lines can bypass the urban center and possibly shorten the journey by going around the (often congested) area enclosed by the orbital.

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.