How to Use orbital in a Sentence

orbital

1 of 2 adjective

• Over time, the bits of rock sloughed off the comet drift away from its orbital path, so the meteors spread out in space.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2023
• The dial also shows the orbital position and phase of the Moon.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2023
• The plane is used as the first stage launch platform for the air launch stage of the smallsat orbital launch vehicle, the LauncherOne.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 31 Mar. 2023
• At the end of 60 minutes, the next orbital display kicks off at zero.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2023
• It can be applied on forehead lines, between eyebrows, to the sides and top of the mouth, and along crow’s feet and the orbital bone.
  — Alex Warner, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
• But what does science have to say about the idea that these orbital patterns affect the flow of events on Earth?
  — Eric MacK, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• This is when the comet will reach its perihelion: the closest point to the sun on its orbital path.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2024
• And now, Elon Musk’s mega rocket is almost ready to take off for its first orbital test flight.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2023
• The crew had to make an orbital correction that took them far away from the moon to slingshot them back toward Earth.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
• SpaceX has been waiting more than a year to get FAA approval for an orbital launch attempt.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
• This would have been the quickest turnaround between orbital launches from the Space Coast which has stood since 1966.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
• Scientists will get two more chances at this orbital conjunction: once at the end of this year, and again in March 2024.
  — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
• So, planets in orbit look kind of like tops spinning on the roof of a car that’s bumping down the road, where the car represents the orbital plane.
  — Gongjie Li, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
• Sand both sides of all the plywood parts with an orbital sander fitted with 220-grit sandpaper.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 24 Jan. 2023
• That nation has a total of 11 orbital launches this year.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2023
• The orbital period of the comet is estimated to be 434 years.
  — The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• Sometimes several planets can be on the same side of the sun as Earth but not align due to their orbital positions.
  — oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2023
• After cleaning the furniture with a damp rag, sand it with 120-grit paper, by hand or with an orbital sander.
  — Annie Midori Atherton, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
• Thursday’s test flight only sought to get to near orbital speeds and make a partial lap of the planet — an achievement that will have to wait for a future test.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
• Musk had hoped for an orbital test flight as recently as last fall, before it could be scheduled this month.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 20 Apr. 2023
• The film will be about the first Filipina astronaut who encounters the devil in a failed orbital launch.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Mar. 2023
• This could be determined from orbital images showing the remnants of a delta where a river flowed into the lake.
  — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
• SpaceX has just completed its 32nd orbital launch of the year, beating the company’s own annual record in only about half the time.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 22 July 2022
• The Starship was meant to use its own engines, blazing for more than six minutes, to propel itself to nearly orbital speeds.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
• SpaceX Setting Pace Commercial revenue grew hand-in-hand with a surge in orbital launches.
  — Loren Grush, Fortune, 24 July 2023
• The face mask can be a bit unwieldy for someone with a smaller face; the EyeCare Max Pro, on the other hand, fits me like a glove and is perfectly contoured to the ins and out of my orbital area.
  — Shanna Shipin, Glamour, 14 Mar. 2023
• SpaceX has been pushing to conduct an initial orbital test flight of Starship, launching from its complex east of Brownsville, Texas.
  — Micah Maidenberg, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2022
• All these world powers want to be the first to discover water ice on the satellite in situ – in its original state – and not as a result of orbital data.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
• Noelle defines a supermoon as a full moon or new moon that is within 10% of its closest orbital position to earth.
  — Maggie Horton, Country Living, 20 July 2023
• The orbital module that carried them to space continued to orbit Earth, moving closer and closer to its destruction.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024

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orbital

2 of 2 noun

• For this, the ideal atoms are ones that have unpaired electrons swarming around the nucleus in what are known as 3d orbitals.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
• Some electrons are stored in atomic orbitals that look a bit like dumbbells that are at right angles to each other.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2019
• Norton’s super-rich guy is the orbital of center a colorful cast of characters.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2022
• Even if the orbitals are distorted by the surface and have different energies, the electrons just swap energy with each other as well.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2019
• The antiprotons will arrive with a lot of energy and end up occupying a distant orbital.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2022
• Chemistry is a sort of applied physics, with the behavior of electrons and their orbitals dictating a set of rules for which reactions can take place and what products will remain stable.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 July 2018
• There is no in-between state, no variation in frequency as would be expected if the electron was initially located in different points in these orbitals.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2017
• Prior to the invention of the attosecond laser, physicists had no stopwatch precise enough to discern the difference, so many had assumed that the neon atom ejected the electron instantaneously, regardless of the orbital.
  — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
• Not mere Center City orbitals, these nonprofit suburban theaters are their own heavenly bodies, with their own individual fields of gravity.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• The research team zeroed in on lutetium based on the fact that the occupancy of its electron orbitals should provide a few more electrons that could potentially participate in forming Cooper pairs, possibly making superconductivity easier.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2023
• For this, the ideal atoms are ones that have unpaired electrons swarming around the nucleus in what are known as 3d orbitals.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
• Some electrons are stored in atomic orbitals that look a bit like dumbbells that are at right angles to each other.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2019
• Norton’s super-rich guy is the orbital of center a colorful cast of characters.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2022
• Even if the orbitals are distorted by the surface and have different energies, the electrons just swap energy with each other as well.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2019
• The antiprotons will arrive with a lot of energy and end up occupying a distant orbital.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2022
• Chemistry is a sort of applied physics, with the behavior of electrons and their orbitals dictating a set of rules for which reactions can take place and what products will remain stable.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 July 2018
• There is no in-between state, no variation in frequency as would be expected if the electron was initially located in different points in these orbitals.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2017
• Prior to the invention of the attosecond laser, physicists had no stopwatch precise enough to discern the difference, so many had assumed that the neon atom ejected the electron instantaneously, regardless of the orbital.
  — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
• Not mere Center City orbitals, these nonprofit suburban theaters are their own heavenly bodies, with their own individual fields of gravity.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• The research team zeroed in on lutetium based on the fact that the occupancy of its electron orbitals should provide a few more electrons that could potentially participate in forming Cooper pairs, possibly making superconductivity easier.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2023
• For this, the ideal atoms are ones that have unpaired electrons swarming around the nucleus in what are known as 3d orbitals.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
• Some electrons are stored in atomic orbitals that look a bit like dumbbells that are at right angles to each other.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2019
• Norton’s super-rich guy is the orbital of center a colorful cast of characters.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2022
• Even if the orbitals are distorted by the surface and have different energies, the electrons just swap energy with each other as well.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2019
• The antiprotons will arrive with a lot of energy and end up occupying a distant orbital.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2022
• Chemistry is a sort of applied physics, with the behavior of electrons and their orbitals dictating a set of rules for which reactions can take place and what products will remain stable.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 July 2018
• There is no in-between state, no variation in frequency as would be expected if the electron was initially located in different points in these orbitals.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2017
• Prior to the invention of the attosecond laser, physicists had no stopwatch precise enough to discern the difference, so many had assumed that the neon atom ejected the electron instantaneously, regardless of the orbital.
  — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
• Not mere Center City orbitals, these nonprofit suburban theaters are their own heavenly bodies, with their own individual fields of gravity.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• The research team zeroed in on lutetium based on the fact that the occupancy of its electron orbitals should provide a few more electrons that could potentially participate in forming Cooper pairs, possibly making superconductivity easier.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024