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# orbit

«orbit» in Mova's school dictionary: **the curved path of a planet, moon or satellite going…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an orbit, orbits); verb (orbit, orbits, orbited, orbiting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An orbit is the curved path of a planet, moon or satellite going around a star or planet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orbit/#m1)

2) (verb) To orbit is to move around something in a path like this. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orbit/#m2)

3) An orbit can mean someone's area of interest or influence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orbit/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons the Earth orbits the Sun once a year (about 365 days), and the Moon orbits the Earth about once a month. Satellites orbit the Earth to send TV signals and help with weather forecasts. Phrases: in orbit, go into orbit, orbit around.

### examples

- The Earth orbits the Sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orbit/#x1)
- The Moon takes about 27 days to orbit the Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orbit/#x2)
- The rocket put a satellite into orbit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orbit/#x3)
- Astronauts live on the space station in orbit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orbit/#x4)
- Mars has a longer orbit than Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orbit/#x5)
- The planets' orbits are almost circles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orbit/#x6)

### note

Regular verb: orbited, orbiting (one t). The orbit is almost a circle (an ellipse). Myth: there is no gravity in orbit — there is; astronauts float because they are falling around the Earth. In maths: one orbit of the Earth around the Sun = one year.

### In the corpora

- [A satnav or phone finds its position by timing radio signals from at least four satellites in orbit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/1-maps-and-scale/16/)
- [On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, orbiting the Earth once in 108 minutes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/9/)
- [The Wall is many walls from many dynasties, and even China's astronaut Yang Liwei said he could not see it from orbit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/52-china-the-first-emperor-the-terracotta-army-and-the-great-wall/7/)
- [Tides come about 50 minutes later each day, because the Moon moves on in its orbit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/40-seasons-and-tides/12/)
- [The giant planets probably moved their orbits after they formed, scattering many small icy bodies inward and outward.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «orbit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orbit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.