orbital
/ɔː.bɪt.əl//ɔɹ.bət.l̩/
orbital adjective: of or relating to, or forming an orbit (such as the orbit of a moon, planet, or spacecraft). Also the ellipsis of orbital motorway.
Adjective
orbital (not comparable)
- Of or relating to, or forming an orbit (such as the orbit of a moon, planet, or spacecraft).
- The 1.2-meter-diameter (4-foot-diameter) telescope has set off on a monthlong journey to its orbital destination of the sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, which is nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away from Earth and also home to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Euclid will keep pace...2021 December 24, Don Lincoln, “The telescope that will replace Hubble will launch on Christmas. Here’s why it matters”, in CNN
- Of or relating to the eye socket (eyehole).
- (of roads, railways) Passing around the outside of an urban area.
- The M25 is an orbital motorway around London.
- The rail orbital routes outside of the M25 and South Coast are challenging. The corridors aren't particularly reliable, and in some places they don't exist. [...] But the reliability and journey times, particularly on the orbital routes: one train an hour from Gatwick Airport to Reading? Surely we...2019 October 23, Rail, pages 22, 23
Noun
orbital (plural orbitals)
- A specification of the energy and probability density of one or more electrons at any point in an atom or molecule, representable as a wave function.
Also used as
orbital is also the ellipsis of orbital motorway.
orbital is also the ellipsis of orbital sander.
orbital meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
orbital in Hindi
- of or relating to an orbit
- कक्षक kakṣak
orbital in Marathi
- कक्षीय, ऑर्बिटल
orbital in Urdu
- آربیٹل
orbital in Bengali
- অরবিটাল, কক্ষপথ
More languagesFewer languages
- orbital in Telugu
- ఆర్బిటల్, ఆర్బిటాల్
- orbital in Malayalam
- ഓർബിറ്റൽ
- orbital in Kannada
- ಕಕ್ಷೀಯ, ಆರ್ಬಿಟಲ್
- orbital in Punjabi
- ਆਰਬਿਟਲ, ਔਰਬਿਟਲ
- orbital in Gujarati
- ભ્રમણકક્ષા, ઓર્બિટલ, કક્ષીય
- orbital in Odia
- କକ୍ଷପଥ, କକ୍ଷୀଯ଼, କକ୍ଷପଥୀଯ଼
- orbital in Nepali
- ओर्बिटल
- orbital in Tagalog
- ligiranan
- orbital in Vietnamese
- obitan, đám mây, quỹ vực, orbital
Examples of orbital in a sentence
- The astronomer calculated the inclination of the equator or ecliptic of Earth and the orbital planes of each visible heavenly body.
- The plane of ecliptic is the orbital plane of the earth and the other planets in the solar system.
- Scattered disc objects typically have highly eccentric orbits which can be inclined up to 40° relative to the orbital plane of the inner solar system.
Forms of orbital
| plural | orbitals |
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Origin of orbital
Borrowed from Medieval Latin orbitālis, from orbita (“a track or rut; a circuit, orbit”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent to orbit + -al. Doublet of orbitalis.
Words formed from orbital
- anteorbital
- antorbital
- biorbital
- circumorbital
- coorbital
- cranioorbital
- exorbital
- extraorbital
- frontoorbital
- infraorbital
- interorbital
- maxilloorbital
- midorbital
- multiorbital
- nonorbital
- ocellorbital
- orbital apex syndrome
- orbital cavity
- orbital defense platform
- orbital element
- orbital fissure
- orbital forming
- orbital index
- orbitally
- orbital mechanics
- orbital motorway
- orbital plane
- orbital process
- orbital ridge
- orbital riveting
- orbital sander
- orbital symmetry
- orbital velocity
- orbito-
- paraorbital
- periorbital
- postorbital
- preorbital
- retro-orbital
- retroorbital
- sidereal orbital period
- sphenoorbital
- sphenorbital
- suborbital
- superorbital
- supraorbital
- temporoorbital
- transorbital
- zygomatico-orbital
- zygomaticoorbital
- inner orbital complex
- intraorbital
- molecular orbital theory
- orbital quantum number
Phrases with orbital
- atomic orbital
- hybrid orbital
- orbital planes
- orbital ridges
- bonding orbital
- orbital indexes
- orbital indices
- orbital sanders
- frontier orbital
- orbital cavities
- orbital elements
- orbital fissures
14 more phrasesFewer phrases
- molecular orbital
- orbital motorways
- orbital processes
- orbital symmetries
- antibonding orbital
- orbital apex syndromes
- inner orbital complexes
- orbital quantum numbers
- inferior orbital fissure
- sidereal orbital periods
- superior orbital fissure
- inferior orbital fissures
- orbital defense platforms
- superior orbital fissures
Words that rhyme with orbital
Questions about orbital
- What does orbital mean?
- Orbital means of or relating to, or forming an orbit (such as the orbit of a moon, planet, or spacecraft).
- What is orbital in Hindi?
- Orbital in Hindi is कक्षक (kakṣak). See Orbital meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is orbital?
- Orbital can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce orbital?
- Orbital is pronounced /ɔː.bɪt.əl/ (UK).
Words near orbital in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: orbital (page history and authors); orbital (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); orbital (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); orbital (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); orbital (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); orbital (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); orbital (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); orbital (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); orbital (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); orbital (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); orbital (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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