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Circling vs Orbiting - What's the difference?

circling | orbiting | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between circling and orbiting

is that circling is present participle of lang=en while orbiting is present participle of orbit.

As a noun circling

is a circular motion.

circling

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A circular motion.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
    • one of these birds came wheeling and screaming round his head in a maze of untrackably swift circlings .

    orbiting

    English

    Verb

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