Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun orbital_motion

1 sense of orbital motion

Sense 1
orbital rotation, orbital motion -- (motion of an object in an orbit around a fixed point; "satellites in orbital rotation")
       => rotation, revolution, gyration -- (a single complete turn (axial or orbital); "the plane made three rotations before it crashed"; "the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year")