Orbits Synonyms

An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. reaches
  2. ranges
  3. compasses
  4. scopes
  5. swings
  6. sweeps
  7. spheres
  8. realms
  9. extensions
Move in an orbit
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. revolves
  2. projects
  3. wheels
  4. turns
  5. rotates
  6. gyrates
  7. fires
  8. circles
To revolve around another body
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. revolves
  2. rings
  3. encompasses
  4. compasses
  5. encircles
A range of control or influence:
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ranges

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Orbits Sentence Examples

  • The first, for a memoir on the construction of a clepsydra for measuring time exactly at sea, he gained at the age of twenty-four; the second, for one on the physical cause of the inclination of the planetary orbits, he divided with his father; and the third, for a communication on the tides, he shared with Euler, Colin Maclaurin and another competitor.

  • The orbits are always open behind, never being surrounded by bone.

  • The same statements are true of the orbits of the satellites around their primaries.

  • Elliptic orbits, and a parabolic orbit considered as the special case when the eccentricity of the ellipse is 1, are almost the only ones the astronomer has to consider, and our attention will therefore be confined to them in the present article.

  • Below are set forth the methods of determining and dealing with such orbits.

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