1) to make an orbit around, of, round (the spaceship made five orbits of the moon)
2) in; into orbit (to put a satellite into orbit)
Combinatory dictionary. 2013.
Orbit — (lat. orbita „Geleise“) bezeichnet: in der Raumfahrt die Umlaufbahn eines Objektes um einen Himmelskörper darauf bezogen die Umlaufbahn eines Satelliten um die Erde, siehe Satellitenorbit in der Mathematik die Menge aller Punkte, in die ein… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Orbit 1 — Author(s) Edited by Damon Knight … Wikipedia
orbit — [ôr′bit] n. [MFr orbite < ML orbita < L, path, track < orbis, a circle, wheel] 1. the bony cavity containing the eye; eye socket 2. [L orbita] a) the actual or imaginary path taken by a celestial body during its periodic revolution… … English World dictionary
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 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
ORBit — is a CORBA 2.4 compliant Object Request Broker (ORB). It features mature C, C++ and Python bindings, and less developed bindings for Perl, Lisp, Pascal, Ruby, and Tcl. Most of the code is distributed under the LGPL license, although the IDL… … Wikipedia
Orbit — (в переводе с англ. «орбита») может означать: Марку жевательной резинки фирмы Wrigley Orbit Downloader программу для закачки файлов из Интернет. Orbit@home проект распределённых вычислений. См. также Орбита (значения) … … Википедия
orbit — [n1] circuit, revolution apogee, circle, circumgyration, course, curve, cycle, ellipse, lap, locus, path, pattern, perigee, rotation, round, track, trajectory; concepts 436,738 orbit [n2] influence, domain ambit, area, arena, boundary, bounds,… … New thesaurus
orbit — ► NOUN 1) the regularly repeated elliptical course of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star or planet. 2) a field of activity or influence. 3) the path of an electron round an atomic nucleus. 4) Anatomy the eye socket. ► VERB (orbited,… … English terms dictionary
Orbit — Orbit, feinkörniger Diorit … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
orbit — index ambit, area (province), bailiwick, capacity (sphere), circuit, province, purview … Law dictionary
Orbit — Orbit,der:⇨Umlaufbahn … Das Wörterbuch der Synonyme
