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Plural of orbit

regular plural

The plural of orbit is orbits.

Forms of orbit

Singularorbit /ˈɔː.bɪt/
Pluralorbits
Countablecountable and uncountable

Orbits in a sentence

  • The Earth orbits the Sun.
  • The satellite orbits the Lagrange point.
  • There is no doubting the fact that the Earth orbits the Sun.From the entry fact
  • If a group acts on itself through conjugation, then its orbits are its conjugacy classes and its stabilizer subgroups are its centralizers.From the entry conjugacy class
  • 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.From the entry scattered disc object

Meaning of orbit

  1. noun An elliptical movement of an object about a celestial object or Lagrange point, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
  2. noun One complete circuit round an orbited body.
  3. noun The state of moving in an orbit.

Full definition of orbit

Questions about the plural of orbit

What is the plural of orbit?
The plural of orbit is orbits.
Is orbit countable?
Orbit is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orbit (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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