Usually means: Path of object around another.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. orbit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. orbit, orbit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. orbit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. orbit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. orbit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Orbit, orbit: Wordnik
  7. orbit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Orbit, Orbit, Orbit, Orbit: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. orbit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. orbit: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. orbit: Dictionary.com
  12. orbit (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. orbit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. ORBit, Orbit (William Orbit album), Orbit (Zedd album), Orbit (anatomy), Orbit (band), Orbit (control theory), Orbit (disambiguation), Orbit (dynamics), Orbit (group theory), Orbit (gum), Orbit (journal), Orbit (mascot), Orbit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Orbit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. orbit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. orbit: Rhymezone
  18. orbit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. orbit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. orbit: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. orbit: Free Dictionary
  22. orbit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. orbit: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. orbit: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. orbit: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Orbit: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  27. orbit: Wiktionary
  28. orbit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Orbit (celestial mechanics), Orbit (physics), orbit: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Orbit: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Orbit (celestial mechanics), Orbit (disambiguation), Orbit (physics), orbit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Orbit: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Orbit (eye socket): Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. Orbit (anatomy), Orbit (celestial mechanics), Orbit (physics), orbit: Medical dictionary
  7. Orbit: Drug Medical Dictionary
  8. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  9. Orbit: Gray's Anatomy (1918)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ORBIT: Acronym Finder
  2. orbit: Idioms

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Orbit: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Orbit: Extragalactic Astronomy
  6. -orbit, orbit, orbit: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  7. ORBIT: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. orbit: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. orbit: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Explosives (No longer online)

(Note: See orbital as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The curved path of one object around a point or another body.
noun:  (astronomy) An elliptical movement of an object about a celestial object or Lagrange point, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
noun:  One complete circuit round an orbited body.
noun:  (uncountable) The state of moving in an orbit.
noun:  (physics) The path of an electron around an atomic nucleus.
noun:  (pinball) A path for the ball on the outer edge of the playfield, usually connected so that the ball entering in one end will come out of the other.
noun:  A sphere of influence; an area or extent of activity, interest, or control.
noun:  (anatomy) The bony cavity in the skull of a vertebrate containing the eyeball.
noun:  (zoology) The area around the eye of a bird or other animal.
noun:  (mathematics) A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.
noun:  (geometry, group theory) The subset of elements of a set X to which a given element can be moved by members of a specified group of transformations that act on X.
noun:  (poker, Texas hold 'em) The number of hands such that each player at the table has posted the big blind once.
noun:  (informal) A state of increased excitement, activity, or anger.
verb:  (astronomy) To circle or revolve around another object or position.
verb:  To place an object (e.g. a satellite) into an orbit around a planet.
verb:  To move around the general vicinity of something.
verb:  To move in a circle.
verb:  (transitive) To center (around).
verb:  (transitive, dating) To continue to follow and/or engage with someone via social media after breaking up with them.

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