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orbitally

orbitally adverb: by means of or in relation to orbit.

Adverb

orbitally (not comparable)

  1. By means of or in relation to orbit
    • Patterns of glaciation have been orbitally influenced.
    • The task of population estimation differs in three important respects from many other applications of orbitally acquired data.2002, J.T. Harvey, “Estimating census district populations from satellite imagery”, in International Journal of Remote Sensing, volume 23, number 10
  2. By means of or in relation to an orbital or orbitals
    • The e_g levels, or bands, in which the charge carriers move are orbitally degenerate.1999, Jeroen van den Brink, Daniel Khomskii, “Double Exchange via Degenerate Orbitals”, in Physical Review Letters, volume 82, number 5

Origin of orbitally

From orbital + -ly.

Words formed from orbitally

Questions about orbitally

What does orbitally mean?
Orbitally means by means of or in relation to orbit.
What part of speech is orbitally?
Orbitally is an adverb.

Words near orbitally in the dictionary

  1. orbital symmetries
  2. orbital symmetry
  3. orbital velocity
  4. orbitales
  5. orbitalis
  6. orbitally
  7. orbitals
  8. orbitar
  9. orbitary
  10. orbitational
  11. orbited

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