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Orbit vs Revolving - What's the difference?

orbit | revolving |

As nouns the difference between orbit and revolving

is that orbit is orbit (path of one object around another object) while revolving is the act of something that revolves or turns.

As a verb revolving is

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orbit

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A circular or elliptical path of one object around another object.
    • The Moon's orbit around the Earth takes nearly one month to complete.
  • A sphere of influence; an area of control.
    • In the post WWII era, several eastern European countries came into the orbit of the Soviet Union.
  • The course of one's usual progression, or the extent of one's typical range.
    • The convenience store was a heavily travelled point in her daily orbit , as she purchased both cigarettes and lottery tickets there.
  • (anatomy) The bony cavity containing the eyeball; the eye socket.
  • (physics) The path an electron takes around an atom's nucleus.
  • (mathematics) A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.

    • Derived terms

    * *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To circle or revolve around another object.
    • The Earth orbits the Sun.
  • To move around the general vicinity of something.
    • The harried mother had a cloud of children orbiting her, asking for sweets.
  • To place an object into an orbit around a planet.
    • A rocket was used to orbit the satellite.

    Synonyms

    * (move around the general vicinity of) circumambulate, tag along * (place an object into an orbit) launch

    Derived terms

    * orbital

    See also

    * satellite * (wikipedia "orbit")

    revolving

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that revolves or turns.
  • * 1867 , Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard, Sexology as the Philosophy of Life (page 245)
    • The rotations of memory are the commencement of those wonderful revolvings of the intellectual faculties by which the process of reason is carried on.