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Orbital vs Orbitally - What's the difference?

orbital | orbitally |

As a noun orbital

is orbital.

As an adverb orbitally is

(sciences) by means of or in relation to orbit.

orbital

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to an orbit.
  • Of or relating to the eye socket (eyehole).

    • Noun

    (electron orbital) (en noun)
  • (label) A specification of the energy and probability density of an electron at any point in an atom or molecule
  • An orbital motorway

    • Derived terms

    * atomic orbital * molecular orbital

    See also

    * quantum number

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    orbitally

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (sciences) By means of or in relation to orbit
    • Patterns of glaciation have been orbitally influenced.
  • * {{quote-journal, 2002, J.T. Harvey, Estimating census district populations from satellite imagery, International Journal of Remote Sensing, volume=23, issue=10 citation
    • , passage=The task of population estimation differs in three important respects from many other applications of orbitally acquired data.}}
  • (physics, chemistry) By means of or in relation to an orbital or orbitals
  • * {{quote-journal, 1999, Jeroen van den Brink & Daniel Khomskii, Double Exchange via Degenerate Orbitals, Physical Review Letters citation
    • , passage=The eg levels, or bands, in which the charge carriers move are orbitally degenerate.}}