Orbit

Definition of orbit:

part of speech: noun

The path described by a celestial body in the heavens: the bony cavity for the eyeball: the skin round the eye.

part of speech: noun

The bony cavity in which the eye is situated ; the skin round the eye of a bird ; the hollow in the arthropod cephalothorax in which the eye- stalk rises.

part of speech: noun

The bony cavity which contains the eye; the circular or nearly circular course of a heavenly body.

part of speech: noun

Circular course; path of a heavenly body; cavity of the eye.

Usage examples for orbit:

• After their ship had gotten into orbit three of them came down to do business. "Space Viking", Henry Beam Piper.

• Even grandmother, who always comes dead upon a stranger, and there is no shaking her off, could not get within the charmed circle, but had to keep in her orbit and really she appeared like quite an entertaining old lady, and all the more so for her peculiar style of conversation, which is apt to be the family consternation at table. "The Magician's Show Box and Other Stories", Lydia Maria Child.

• Like the earth, Mars rotates about an axis inclined to the plane of its orbit and the length of a Martian day is very nearly equal to our own. "Lectures in Navigation", Ernest Gallaudet Draper.

• But of all that related to that subtle orbit in which gentlemen and ladies move in elevated and ethereal order, Cleveland was a profound philosopher. "Ernest Maltravers, Complete", Edward Bulwer-Lytton.