orbital

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: or=bit=al

CIDE DICTIONARY

orbital, a. 

 Of or pertaining to an orbit.  J. D. Forbes.  [1913 Webster]

Orbital index (Anat.), in the skull, the ratio of the vertical height to the transverse width of the orbit, which is taken as the standard, equal to 100.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

orbital, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 Anat., Astron., & Physics of an orbit or orbits.
2 (of a road) passing round the outside of a town.
--n. Physics a state or function representing the possible motion of an electron round an atomic nucleus.

Idiom

orbital sander a sander having a circular and not oscillating motion.

THESAURUS

orbital

O-shaped, ambagious, backhanded, circuitous, circular, deviating, deviative, devious, digressive, discursive, excursive, helical, indirect, meandering, oblique, out-of-the-way, rotary, round, roundabout, spiral