ORBITAL PLANE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(astronomy) the plane on which a body is orbiting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("orbital plane" is a kind of...):

plane; sheet ((mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

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