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Orbiting meaning

present participle and gerund of orbit

Using Orbiting

  • The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of orbit
  • In the example corpus, orbiting often appears in combinations such as: orbiting the, the orbiting, planets orbiting.

Context around Orbiting

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Orbiting

  • In this selection, "orbiting" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, alien, cosmonauts, satellite, lab, laboratory and earth stand out and add context to how "orbiting" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a moon orbiting space station and a satellite orbiting the earth. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "orbiting" sits close to words such as ascension, booze and bosnia, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with orbiting

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Satellites orbiting 800 km above us can monitor volcanoes. (9 words)

Astronomers have discovered three potential "super-Earth" exoplanets orbiting a relatively nearby orange dwarf star. (15 words)

Kamo’oalewa is a quasi-satellite of Earth because it appears to orbit Earth despite actually orbiting the sun. (19 words)

Artemis II will be the first crewed mission to the moon since the final Apollo mission took flight in 1972, and the four astronauts will be the first humans to use the Orion spacecraft, which re-entered Earth last December after orbiting the moon. (44 words)

Alongside Prof. Kaiyu Guan, the Founding Director of the Agroecosystem Sustainability Center and a fellow investigator on this study, Wu hopes to use the method to track photosynthesis in regions around the world from a satellite orbiting the Earth. (39 words)

After all, Fezco’s serene presence was born out of survival, which made him seem like an alien orbiting outside the self-centered dramas of privileged brats like Cassie (Sweeney), Maddy (Alexa Demie) and Nate (Jacob Elordi). (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

His system correctly saw the Moon as orbiting Earth, and the planets as orbiting the Sun, but erroneously considered the Sun to be orbiting the Earth.

A synodic month is longer than a sidereal month because the Earth-Moon system is orbiting the Sun in the same direction as the Moon is orbiting the Earth.

After all, Fezco’s serene presence was born out of survival, which made him seem like an alien orbiting outside the self-centered dramas of privileged brats like Cassie (Sweeney), Maddy (Alexa Demie) and Nate (Jacob Elordi).

A group of cosmonauts orbiting the planet Solaris begin having what they believe to be hallucinations of people from their memories.

Alongside Prof. Kaiyu Guan, the Founding Director of the Agroecosystem Sustainability Center and a fellow investigator on this study, Wu hopes to use the method to track photosynthesis in regions around the world from a satellite orbiting the Earth.

Artemis II will be the first crewed mission to the moon since the final Apollo mission took flight in 1972, and the four astronauts will be the first humans to use the Orion spacecraft, which re-entered Earth last December after orbiting the moon.

But as the space beyond our planet becomes more economically important, there’s a lot more interest in pointing those sensors away from us and at orbiting spacecraft, debris, potentially dangerous asteroids, and even the Moon.

Following the trans-lunar injection, the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft escaped from orbiting the Earth and began following a path that would take it to the vicinity of the moon.

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From deploying CubeSats to studying fluid dynamics in space, the orbiting lab expanded its legacy of science and discovery for the benefit of humanity.

Satellites orbiting 800 km above us can monitor volcanoes.

She became an official crew memberof the orbiting laboratory that has hosted more than 260 people in its nearly 23-year history.

Solar Orbiter works in tandem with Parker Solar Probe, which is orbiting the sun on a seven-year mission after launching in August 2018.

Their transportation will be facilitated by the Crew Dragon capsule named Endurance, a vehicle that has already completed two voyages to the orbiting laboratory.

The SpaceX capsule and its four astronauts had to wait 65 feet from the orbiting lab, as flight controllers in California scrambled to come up with a software fix.

The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft arrived at the orbiting station at 0640 GMT on Friday, the US space agency said in a statement.

An adviser to the Supreme Court, which is monitoring pollution management by authorities in the national capital region, this week said there was a discrepancy in the farm fire data obtained from orbiting and stationary satellites.

Astronomers have discovered three potential "super-Earth" exoplanets orbiting a relatively nearby orange dwarf star.

In September, the US conducted the first launch in a new constellation of satellites known as “Silent Barker” designed to track Chinese or Russian spacecraft that could potentially disable or damage orbiting American systems.

In the fourth mission, Starship might dock at a moon-orbiting space station, the yet-to-be-built Gateway, and ferry astronauts back and forth to the moon from there.

Kamo’oalewa is a quasi-satellite of Earth because it appears to orbit Earth despite actually orbiting the sun.

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Common combinations with orbiting

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Frequently asked questions

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What does "orbiting" mean?
Orbiting means: present participle and gerund of orbit
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