What is "revolve about"

Usage examples of "revolve about".

Though the satellites of the moons revolve about the primaries in orbits inclined at all kinds of angles to the planes of the ecliptics, and even the moons vary in their paths about the planets, the planets themselves revolve about the stars, like those of this system about the sun, in substantially the same plane.

So how come, you ask, do planets revolve around suns and suns as part of galaxies revolve about and whatnot?

They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the centre of the primary planet exactly three of the diameters, and the outermost five.

Alstair went heavily to the biology laboratory, of which Helen was in charge, just as she was in charge of the biological specimens-rabbits, sheep, and a seemingly endless array of small animals-which on the voyage had been bred for a food supply and ,wbich it had been planned to release sho~uld a planet suitable for colonizing revolve about the ringed star.

He would also, of course, need a sun to warm him, if he wished to go beyond this system, but that would not have to be a large affair--in fact, it might be smaller than the planet, and could revolve about it like a moon.

Next you'd be saying that in this hyper-space of yours the closed spaces would be subject to hyper-laws, revolve about each other in hyper-orbits regulated by hypergravitation, and undoubtedly, at times there would be hyper~earth tides or hyper-collisions, producing decidedly hyper-catastrophes.

He told us of the vast warm seas which seethed in constant tidal agitation resulting from the constantly changing positions of the four larger moons which revolve about Jupiter in forty-two hours, eighty-five hours, one hundred seventy-two hours, and four hundred hours respectively while the planet spins upon its axis, making a complete revolution in nine hours and fifty-five minutes.

Psychology, theory of knowledge and metaphysics revolve about belief, and on the view we take of belief our philosophical outlook largely depends.

Whatever it is, the members of its _karass_ revolve about it in the majestic chaos of a spiral nebula.

Its at least two thousand kilometers in diameter, which makes it in the size range of the large satellites that revolve about gas giants.

It's at least two thousand kilometers in diameter, which makes it in the size range of the large satellites that revolve about gas giants.

If such a thing were not impossible, it would be guessed that they were suns so close together as to revolve about one another within hours.

Our eyes--if such they can be called--are both microscopes and telescopes, the change in focus being effected as instantaneously as thought, enabling us to perceive the smallest microbe or disease-germ, and to see the planets that revolve about the stars.