electron orbit

1. 1.

   the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom

   Synonymsorbit

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Questions about electron orbit

What does electron orbit mean?

electron orbit means "the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom".

What is another word for electron orbit?

Close synonyms include orbit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is electron orbit a common word?

electron orbit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.