ORBITAL PLANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does orbital plane mean? 

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

1. (astronomy) the plane on which a body is orbiting

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORBITAL PLANE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(astronomy) the plane on which a body is orbiting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

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

plane; sheet ((mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

 Context examples 

Its orbit is also tilted a little, causing it to bob up and then down once each year through Earth's orbital plane.

(Small Asteroid Is Earth's Constant Companion, NASA)