Noun

(en noun)

An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.

* 1907 , Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons , ""

Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?

* 2006 , Christian Neef, " Diary of a Collapsing Superpower", Spiegel Magazine , November 22,

At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm  

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The domain of a certain abstraction.

* 1922 , Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution , "",

One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.

(formal, or, legal) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, and particularly those territories ruled by a king.

* 1874 , ,

And, of this island realm , he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.

* 1913 , Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia , "",

Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders,

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.