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lunar orbit

lunar orbit noun: the orbit of the Moon around the Earth.

Noun

lunar orbit (plural lunar orbits)

  1. The orbit of the Moon around the Earth.
    • From the present position of the lunar orbit, it does not appear that any very striking occultations will happen in this country during the present year; [...]1690, John Partridge, Merlinus liberatus, page 43
    • But whereas the plane of the lunar orbit, which is always inclined to the plane of the ecliptic in an angle of about 5 degrees, never continues in a constant position [...]1755, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, page 389
  2. The orbit of an object around the Moon.

lunar orbit meaning in Kannada

lunar orbit in Kannada

ಚಾಂದ್ರ ಕಕ್ಷೆ, ಭೂಮಿಯ ಸುತ್ತ ಚಂದ್ರನ ಕಕ್ಷೆ, ಚಂದ್ರನ ಸುತ್ತಲ ಕಕ್ಷೆ

Examples of lunar orbit in a sentence

  • With these preliminary explanations, the reader will be prepared for the discussion of the relation of the eccentricity of the lunar orbit to its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic.1855, Samuel Elliott Coues, Arithmetical Calculations of the Elements of the Orbit of the Moon:
  • The lunar orbit and the solar orbit do not coincide, but intersect each other at an angle of 5°8'48".1865, Alexander Hamilton Howe, A Theoretical inquiry into the physical cause of epidemic diseases:
  • If the lunar orbit is assumed circular, then the rotation rate and the earth-moon distance are constant [...]1967, D. L. Mootchnik, J. Kork, Lunar Orbit Mission Analysis:

Forms of lunar orbit

plurallunar orbits

Questions about lunar orbit

What does lunar orbit mean?
Lunar orbit means the orbit of the Moon around the Earth.
What is lunar orbit in Kannada?
Lunar orbit in Kannada is ಚಾಂದ್ರ ಕಕ್ಷೆ, ಭೂಮಿಯ ಸುತ್ತ ಚಂದ್ರನ ಕಕ್ಷೆ, ಚಂದ್ರನ ಸುತ್ತಲ ಕಕ್ಷೆ. See Lunar orbit meaning in Kannada.
How do you use lunar orbit in a sentence?
With these preliminary explanations, the reader will be prepared for the discussion of the relation of the eccentricity of the lunar orbit to its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic.
What part of speech is lunar orbit?
Lunar orbit is a noun.
What is the plural of lunar orbit?
The plural of lunar orbit is lunar orbits.

Words near lunar orbit in the dictionary

  1. lunar months
  2. Lunar New Year
  3. Lunar New Years
  4. lunar occultation
  5. lunar occultations
  6. lunar orbit
  7. lunar orbits
  8. lunar phase
  9. lunar phases
  10. lunar rainbow
  11. lunar rainbows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lunar orbit (page history and authors); lunar orbit (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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