Definitions for orbits

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orbits or·bit

Spelling: [awr-bit]

IPA: /ˈɔr bɪt/

Orbits is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in orbits (biorst).

Definitions for orbits

noun

1. the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
2. the usual course of one's life or range of one's activities.
3. the sphere of power or influence, as of a nation or person:
4. Physics. (in Bohr theory) the path traced by an electron revolving around the nucleus of an atom.
5. an orb or sphere.
6. Anatomy. the bony cavity of the skull that contains the eye; eye socket. the eye.
7. Zoology. the part surrounding the eye of a bird or insect.

verb (used with object)

1. to move or travel around in an orbital or elliptical path:
2. to send into orbit, as a satellite.

verb (used without object)

1. to go or travel in an orbit.

Origin of orbits

1350-1400; Middle English Latin orbita wheel track, course, circuit

Examples for orbits

The head is flat on the summit and narrow between the orbits.

In the same way the seven other planets are held to their orbits.

A like question may be asked respecting the inclinations of the orbits.

How they must intersect, cross and intermingle each other's orbits!

Mars is a planet that orbits the Sun and has never been visited by man.

Hence the probability that all the orbits are ellipses is overwhelming.

Kepler-10c, which is the proper name for the mega-Earth, orbits its star much closer than our planet does.

In the dark patches of the orbits the eyeballs glimmered piercingly.

Planets consisting of diamond have been identified before, but this is the first one that orbits a star.

Venus orbits the Sun within the habitable zone, and is only slightly smaller than Earth.