ORBIT
Orbit
In anatomy, the orbit is the cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated. "Orbit" can refer to the bony socket, or it can also be used to imply the contents. In the adult human, the volume of the orbit is 30 ml, of which the eye occupies 6.5 ml.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Orbit (anatomy)
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ORBit
ORBit is a CORBA 2.4 compliant Object Request Broker . It features mature C, C++ and Python bindings, and less developed bindings for Perl, Lisp, Pascal, Ruby, and Tcl. Most of the code is distributed under the LGPL license, although the IDL compiler and utilities use the GPL.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: ORBit
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orbit
Noun
- A circular or elliptical path of one object around another object.
- The Moon's orbit around the Earth takes nearly one month to complete.
- A sphere of influence; an area of control.
- In the post WWII era, several eastern European countries came into the orbit of the Soviet Union.
- The course of one's usual progression, or the extent of one's typical range.
- The convenience store was a heavily travelled point in her daily orbit, as she purchased both cigarettes and lottery tickets there.
- The bony cavity containing the eyeball; the eye socket.
- The path an electron takes around an atom's nucleus.
- A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.
Verb
- To circle or revolve around another object.
- The Earth orbits the Sun.
- To move around the general vicinity of something.
- The harried mother had a cloud of children orbiting her, asking for sweets.
- To place an object into an orbit around a planet.
- A rocket was used to orbit the satellite.
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