orbital plane

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   (astronomy) the plane on which a body is orbiting

   Broaderplane

   astronomy

Questions about orbital plane

What does orbital plane mean?

orbital plane means "(astronomy) the plane on which a body is orbiting".

Is orbital plane a common word?

orbital plane 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.