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orbit

CEFR: B1

The curved, predictable gravitational path of a celestial body or spacecraft around a planet, star, or moon.

Synonyms

trajectory
revolution

Common Collocations

in orbit
enter orbit
elliptical orbit

Example Sentence

The space station completes a full low-Earth orbit approximately every ninety minutes.

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