orbital

Significado (Inglês)

Adj

1. Of or relating to, or forming an orbit (such as the orbit of a moon, planet, or spacecraft).
2. Of or relating to the eye socket (eyehole).
3. (of roads, railways) Passing around the outside of an urban area.

Noun

1. A specification of the energy and probability density of one or more electrons at any point in an atom or molecule, and can be represented as a wave function.
2. Ellipsis of orbital motorway.
3. Short for orbital sander.

Sinônimos

circuitous

ecliptic

itinerant

orbit

path

🛣️

rail

rotatory

roundabout

roving

track

eye socket-related

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɔː.bɪt.əl/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin orbitālis, from orbita (“a track or rut; a circuit, orbit”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent to orbit + -al. Doublet of orbitalis.