orbital motion

1. 1.

   motion of an object in an orbit around a fixed point

   “satellites in orbital rotation”

   Synonymsorbital rotation

   Broaderrotation

Questions about orbital motion

What does orbital motion mean?

orbital motion means "motion of an object in an orbit around a fixed point".

What is another word for orbital motion?

Close synonyms include orbital rotation. 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 orbital motion a common word?

orbital motion 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.