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Orbital

//ɔː.bɪt.əl// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to, or forming an orbit (such as the orbit of a moon, planet, or spacecraft). not-comparable

    "The 1.2-meter-diameter (4-foot-diameter) telescope has set off on a monthlong journey to its orbital destination of the sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, which is nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away from Earth and also home to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Euclid will keep pace with Earth as our planet orbits the sun."

  2. 2
    Of or relating to the eye socket (eyehole). not-comparable
  3. 3
    (of roads, railways) Passing around the outside of an urban area. UK, not-comparable

    "The M25 is an orbital motorway around London."

Adjective
  1. 1
    describing a circle; moving in a circle wordnet
  2. 2
    of or relating to the eye socket wordnet
  3. 3
    of or relating to an orbit wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A specification of the energy and probability density of one or more electrons at any point in an atom or molecule, representable as a wave function.
  2. 2
    Ellipsis of orbital motorway. UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
  3. 3
    Ellipsis of orbital sander. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

    "As with most power tools, orbitals can be divided into light and heavy-duty categories."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Medieval Latin orbitālis, from orbita (“a track or rut; a circuit, orbit”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent to orbit + -al. Doublet of orbitalis.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Medieval Latin orbitālis, from orbita (“a track or rut; a circuit, orbit”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent to orbit + -al. Doublet of orbitalis.

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