Relating to an orbit, the path something takes around another object, especially in space; or the area around the eye socket.
From Latin 'orbita' (orbit, track), derived from 'orbis' (circle). Used in astronomy since the 1600s and in anatomy for the eye socket region.
Electrons don't actually orbit nuclei like planets around the sun—they exist in 'probability clouds' called orbitals where they're likely to be found, which revolutionized physics when discovered and broke our everyday intuitions about how things move.
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