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Definition of Celestial orbit
1. Noun. The (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another. "He plotted the orbit of the moon"
Terms within: Apoapsis, Point Of Apoapsis, Periapsis, Point Of Periapsis
Specialized synonyms: Geosynchronous Orbit
Generic synonyms: Itinerary, Path, Route
Derivative terms: Orbit, Orbital
Lexicographical Neighbors of Celestial Orbit
Literary usage of Celestial orbit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported by Thomas Carlyle (1846)
"It was appointed,' says our Philosopher, ' that the high ' celestial orbit of
Blumine should intersect the low sublunary one ' of our Forlorn; that He, ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1899)
"On the whole, Genius has privileges of its own; it selects an orbit for itself;
and be this never so eccentric, if it is indeed a celestial orbit, ..."
3. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas Carlyle (1860)
"On the whole, Genius has privileges of its own; it selects? an orbit for itself;
and be this never so eccentric, if it is indeed a celestial orbit, ..."
4. Popular Astronomy: A General Description of the Heavens by Camille Flammarion (1894)
"This velocity of our globe in its celestial orbit is seventy-five times swifter
than that of a cannon-ball. A being placed in space not far from the ideal ..."
5. Hegel's Logic: An Essay in Interpretation by John Grier Hibben (1902)
"The node as used in astronomy is one of the points at which any celestial orbit
cuts the plane of the ecliptic, the latter being a great circle of the ..."
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