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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | orbit, revolve |
| Type of | circle |
| Has types | retrograde |
The moon orbits around the Earth.
The planets are orbiting the sun.
electrons orbit the nucleus.
Examples of orb
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Female modern golden orb weavers are giant in comparison to their male partners.
From the theepochtimes.com
The purple orb scoots across the floor and makes contact with the Velcro target.
From the washingtonpost.com
Orb-weaver spiders of the cosmopolitan family Areneidae have eight similar eyes.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Contains photos of the Imperial crown, sceptre and orb, with details about each.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The difference between the exact aspect and the actual aspect is called the orb.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A bright red glowing orb half a metre across is floating down a nearby hillside.
From the newscientist.com
In addition, most spiders do not weave orb webs or produce more irregular forms.
From the sciencedaily.com
Largest spider fossil belongs to the living genus Nephila, or golden orb-weavers.
From the theepochtimes.com
Sarah Lee, Sanchez's district scheduler painted Mickey on the orange colored orb.
From the ocregister.com
- Eyeball: the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
- Move in an orbit; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus"
- Ball: an object with a spherical shape; "a ball of fire"
- In astrology, the orb is how much an angle made by two points differs from the exactness of an aspect. A trine, for instance, is 120 degrees. If two points were 123 degrees apart, they would be said to be in a trine with an orb of 3 degrees. ...
- The celestial spheres, or celestial orbs, were the fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus and others. ...
- The Orb is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics supervillain, primarily an adversary of Ghost Rider. Created by writer Len Wein, penciller Ross Andru, and inker Don Perlin, he first appeared in Marvel Team-Up #15 (November 1973).
- Orb Publications is a publisher based in Ringwood, Victoria, Australia. The company currently publishes the speculative fiction magazine Orb Speculative Fiction.
- The term orb describes unexpected, typically circular artifacts that occur in flash photography -- sometimes with trails indicating motion -- especially common with modern compact and ultra-compact digital cameras.
- In physics, backscatter (or backscattering) is the reflection of waves, particles, or signals back to the direction they came from. It is a diffuse reflection due to scattering, as opposed to specular reflection like a mirror. ...
