Usually means: Path where electrons travel around nucleus.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word orbital:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. orbital: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. orbital: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. orbital: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. orbital: Collins English Dictionary
  5. orbital: Vocabulary.com
  6. Orbital, orbital: Wordnik
  7. orbital: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. orbital: Wiktionary
  9. orbital: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. orbital: Dictionary.com
  11. Orbital (The Culture), Orbital (band), Orbital (brown album), Orbital (comics), Orbital (green album), Orbital (video game), Orbital: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Orbital: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. orbital: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. orbital: Rhymezone
  15. orbital, orbital, orbital(e) (-aux): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. orbital: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. orbital: Free Dictionary
  18. orbital: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. orbital: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. orbital: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Orbital: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  4. orbital: Medical dictionary
  5. Orbital: Drug Medical Dictionary
  6. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. -orbital, -orbital (sigma orbital), orbital: PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
  3. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Orbital: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See orbit as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Of or relating to, or forming an orbit (such as the orbit of a moon, planet, or spacecraft).
adjective:  (anatomy) Of or relating to the eye socket (eyehole).
adjective:  (chiefly UK) (of roads, railways) Passing around the outside of an urban area.
noun:  (physics) A specification of the energy and probability density of one or more electrons at any point in an atom or molecule, and can be represented as a wave function.
noun:  (chiefly UK) Ellipsis of orbital motorway. [Synonym of ring road]
noun:  Short for orbital sander. [A hand-held sander that vibrates in small circles, or orbits.]

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