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say it: AWR-buht
orbit is a noun and verb meaning "the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another". It carries 6 recorded senses.
the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another
“he plotted the orbit of the moon”
an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"
“a piano has a greater range than the human voice”
“the ambit of municipal legislation”
“within the compass of this article”
“within the scope of an investigation”
“outside the reach of the law”
“in the political orbit of a world power”
the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom
the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball
move in an orbit
“The moon orbits around the Earth”
“The planets are orbiting the sun”
“electrons orbit the nucleus”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for orbit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.