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Oxford English Dictionary -- new item
NEW EDITION, draft entry Sept. 2004
orbiting, n.
The action of making an orbit. Freq. attrib.
1956 Spaceflight 1 6/2 Whether we can land on all of them is improbable, but orbiting trips will be made to get a closer look. 1967 Wall St. Jrnl. 6 Jan. 4/3 The successful weekend orbiting of Intelsat II. 1977 A. HALLAM Planet Earth 30/2 The satellites precess, or progressively change their orbiting path relative to the Earth's axis, due to these broad variations in the gravity field. 1986 Systematic Zool. 35 26/2 Kepler's laws could be derived from a motion picture of planetary orbitings running in reverse.
2000 K. MINOGUE Light Years Rocket into outer space in orbit.
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