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orbit

the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another; "he plotted the orbit of the moon"

the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom

Synonyms:

• Earth insertion,
• LEM,
• LM,
• O,
• air lane,
• ambit,
• annular muscle,
• annulus,
• aphelion,
• apogee,
• area,
• arena,
• areola,
• astronomical longitude,
• attitude-control rocket,
• aureole,
• autumnal equinox,
• bailiwick,
• ball,
• ballistic capsule,
• balloon,
• beat,
• bladder,
• blob,
• boll,
• bolus,
• border,
• borderland,
• bubble,
• bulb,
• bulbil,
• bulblet,
• burn,
• capsule,
• celestial equator,
• celestial longitude,
• celestial meridian,
• chaplet,
• circle,
• circling,
• circuit,
• circuiteer,
• circuition,
• circuitousness,
• circuitry,
• circularity,
• circulate,
• circulation,
• circumambience,
• circumambiency,
• circumambulate,
• circumambulation,
• circumference,
• circumflexion,
• circumlocution,
• circummigrate,
• circummigration,
• circumnavigate,
• circumnavigation,
• circumvent,
• circus,
• close the circle,
• closed circle,
• colures,
• come full circle,
• compass,
• constituency,
• corona,
• coronet,
• course,
• crown,
• cycle,
• deep-space ship,
• demesne,
• department,
• describe a circle,
• deviance,
• deviancy,
• deviation,
• deviousness,
• diadem,
• digression,
• discipline,
• discus,
• disk,
• docking,
• docking maneuver,
• domain,
• dominion,
• ecliptic,
• ellipsoid,
• encircle,
• encompass,
• equator,
• equinoctial,
• equinoctial circle,
• equinoctial colure,
• equinox,
• eternal return,
• excursion,
• excursus,
• extension,
• extent,
• fairy ring,
• ferry rocket,
• field,
• flank,
• flight path,
• footing,
• fuel ship,
• full circle,
• galactic longitude,
• garland,
• geocentric longitude,
• geodetic longitude,
• geoid,
• girdle,
• girdle the globe,
• globe,
• globelet,
• globoid,
• globule,
• glomerulus,
• glory,
• go about,
• go around,
• go round,
• go the round,
• gob,
• gobbet,
• great circle,
• gyre,
• gyring,
• halo,
• heliocentric longitude,
• hemisphere,
• indirection,
• injection,
• insertion,
• itinerary,
• judicial circuit,
• jurisdiction,
• knob,
• knot,
• lap,
• lasso,
• line,
• logical circle,
• longitude,
• loop,
• looplet,
• lunar excursion module,
• lunar module,
• magic circle,
• make a circuit,
• manned rocket,
• march,
• meandering,
• meridian,
• module,
• moon ship,
• multistage rocket,
• noose,
• oblate spheroid,
• orb,
• orbiting,
• orblet,
• pale,
• parking orbit,
• path,
• pellet,
• perigee,
• perihelion,
• period,
• precinct,
• primrose path,
• prolate spheroid,
• province,
• purview,
• radius,
• reach,
• realm,
• reentry,
• revolution,
• revolve,
• ring,
• road,
• rocket,
• rondelle,
• rondure,
• round,
• round trip,
• roundaboutness,
• roundel,
• rounding,
• rounds,
• route,
• run,
• saucer,
• scope,
• sea lane,
• shortcut,
• shuttle rocket,
• skirt,
• small circle,
• soft landing,
• solstitial colure,
• space capsule,
• space docking,
• space rocket,
• spacecraft,
• spaceship,
• sphere,
• sphere of influence,
• spheroid,
• spherule,
• sphincter,
• spiral,
• spiraling,
• stamping ground,
• subdiscipline,
• surround,
• sweep,
• territory,
• tour,
• track,
• trade route,
• traject,
• trajectory,
• trajet,
• turf,
• turn,
• turning,
• vantage,
• vernal equinox,
• vicious circle,
• walk,
• wheel,
• wheeling,
• wreath,
• zodiac,
• zone