orbital.
Of or relating to, or forming an orbit (such as the orbit of a moon, planet, or spacecraft).
Meaning & usage
Of or relating to, or forming an orbit (such as the orbit of a moon, planet, or spacecraft).
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.
Where this word comes from
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.
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.
Ellipsis of orbital motorway.
Ellipsis of orbital sander.
Where this word comes from
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.
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