ORBITAL MOTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does orbital motion mean? 

• ORBITAL MOTION (noun)
  The noun ORBITAL MOTION has 1 sense:

1. motion of an object in an orbit around a fixed point

  Familiarity information: ORBITAL MOTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORBITAL MOTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Motion of an object in an orbit around a fixed point

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

orbital motion; orbital rotation

Context example:

satellites in orbital rotation

Hypernyms ("orbital motion" is a kind of...):

gyration; revolution; rotation (a single complete turn (axial or orbital))

 Context examples 

“Once the ice cap forms, it provides a slight asymmetry that either locks toward or away from Charon when Pluto’s spin slows to match the orbital motion of the moon,” Hamilton said.

(Scientists Probe Mystery of Pluto’s Icy Heart, NASA)

Using the supersharp radio vision of the US National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have made the first detection of orbital motion in a pair of supermassive black holes in a galaxy some 750 million light-years from Earth.

(First-Ever Black-Hole 'Visual Binary' Revealed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The scientists found that at the interface between a layer containing nickel and one with iridium, an unusual form of magnetism emerges that strongly affects the behavior of spin and orbital motion of electrons.

(Iridium 'loses its identity' when interfaced with nickel, National Science Foundation)