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Word: Orbit
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English (in orbit (sense 3 of the noun)): partly via French from Latin orbita ‘course, track’ (in medieval Latin ‘eye socket’), feminine of orbitus ‘circular’, from orbis ‘circle, sphere’
ˈɔːbɪt
the curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft round a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution
Short Definition:elliptical course of celestial object
Examples:- the Earth's orbit around the sun
an area of activity, interest, or influence
Short Definition:area of activity or influence
Examples:- audiences drawn largely from outside the Party orbit
the cavity in the skull of a vertebrate that contains the eye; the eye socket.
Short Definition:eye socket
Word: Orbit
Speech Type: Verb
ˈɔːbɪt
(of a celestial object or spacecraft) move in orbit round (a star or planet)
Short Definition:move in orbit round
Examples:- Mercury orbits the Sun
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