orbitally

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adverb

By means of or in relation to orbit

“Patterns of glaciation have been orbitally influenced.”

OriginProto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg- ← English orbital →
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Meanings

adverborbitally (not comparable)
  1. not comparablesciencesBy means of or in relation to orbit

    Patterns of glaciation have been orbitally influenced.

    1 more example

    The task of population estimation differs in three important respects from many other applications of orbitally acquired data.

    2002, J.T. Harvey, “Estimating census district populations from satellite imagery”, in International Journal of Remote Sensing, volume 23, number 10
  2. not comparablechemistryBy means of or in relation to an orbital or orbitals

    The e_g levels, or bands, in which the charge carriers move are orbitally degenerate.

    1999, Jeroen van den Brink, Daniel Khomskii, “Double Exchange via Degenerate Orbitals”, in Physical Review Letters, volume 82, number 5

Origin

  1. Englishorbital
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishorbitally

From orbital + -ly.

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