orbital rotation

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   motion of an object in an orbit around a fixed point

   “satellites in orbital rotation”

   Synonymsorbital motion

   Broaderrotation

Questions about orbital rotation

What does orbital rotation mean?

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

What is another word for orbital rotation?

Close synonyms include orbital motion. 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 rotation a common word?

orbital rotation 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.