orbit period

1. 1.

   the time it takes to complete one full orbit around a celestial body

   “the orbit period depends on the altitude of the satellite”

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Questions about orbit period

What does orbit period mean?

orbit period means "the time it takes to complete one full orbit around a celestial body".

Is orbit period a common word?

orbit period 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.