2. Verb. (third-person singular of orbit) ¹
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Definition of Orbits
1. orbit [v] - See also: orbit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orbits
Literary usage of Orbits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1887)
"Note on the orbits of Satellites. By Professor ASAPH HALL. [PLATE XL] The
observations of the five inner satellites of Saturn made at Washington •since the ..."
2. Physical anthropology of the Lenape or Delawares, and of the eastern Indians by Aleš Hrdlička (1916)
"orbits. NOSE With respect to the orbits, the writer follows his invariable custom
of making measurements on both sides and recording the mean, which, ..."
3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1861)
"On the Secular Variations and Mutual Relations of the orbits of the Asteroids.
By Simon Newcomb. (Memoirs of the American Academy, New Series, tv pp. ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1857)
"The recently discovered asteroids had the position of their orbits represented,
and the inclination of the orbit of the original planet was deduced anew, ..."
5. The Binary Stars by Robert Grant Aitken (1918)
"CHAPTER VIII THE KNOWN orbits OF VISUAL AND SPECTROSCOPIC BINARY STARS The orbits
of 112 visual and of 137 spectroscopic binary star systems have been ..."
6. Anatomy-- descriptive and surgical by Henry Gray (1858)
"Beneath the supra- orbital ridges are the openings of the orbits, ... The orbits (fig.
52) are two quadrilateral hollow cones, situated at the upper and ..."
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