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Definition of Orbital plane
1. Noun. (astronomy) the plane on which a body is orbiting.
Definition of Orbital plane
1. Noun. (astronomy) The surface (plane) that contains an orbit. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Orbital plane
1. The orbital surface of the maxilla, lying perpendicular to the orbitomeatal plane at the orbitale. Synonym: planum orbitale. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orbital Plane
Literary usage of Orbital plane
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Now, if these orbital planes are imagined extended to the celestial sphere, they
will cut out upon it great circles, one corresponding to each orbital plane ..."
2. Rational Cosmology: Or, The Eternal Principles and the Necessary Laws of the by Laurens Perseus Hickok (1858)
"... or, if we take the mean between the earth's orbit and the plane of the sun's
equator, as the general orbital plane of the whole solar system, ..."
3. The Origin and Its Meaning: On the Origin of the Universe and Its Mechanics by Roger Ellman (2004)
"However, the electron in that second orbital plane, starting at <p = 72 .34° above
... The nl shell can only contain one orbital plane with only one orbit ..."
4. The Solar System: Six Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Institute of by Percival Lowell (1903)
"The axis, therefore, continues to tend toward the orbital plane. ... This term
causes the inclination of the equatorial to the orbital plane to diminish ..."
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