Word Meanings - APSIDAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the apsides of an orbit.

Related words: (words related to APSIDAL)

• ORBITARY
  Situated around the orbit; as, the orbitary feathers of a bird.
• ORBIT
  The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon. 2. An orb or ball. Roll the lucid orbit of an eye. Young.
• ORBITELAE
  A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• ORBITOLITES
  A genus of living Foraminifera, forming broad, thin, circular disks, containing numerous small chambers.
• ORBITOSPHENOID
  Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone. -- n.
• APSIDES
  See APSIS
• ORBITUDE; ORBITY
  Orbation. Bp. Hall.
• ORBITONASAL
  Of or pertaining to the orbit and the nose; as, the orbitonasal, or ophthalmic, nerve.
• ORBITAL
  Of or pertaining to an orbit. "Orbital revolution." J. D. Forbes. Orbital index , 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.
• ORBITUARY
  Orbital.
• ORBITAR
  Orbital. Dunglison.
• ORBITOSPHENOIDAL
  Of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone; orbitosphenoid.
• PREORBITAL
  a. Situated in front or the orbit.
• ABSORBITION
  Absorption.
• EXORBITANTLY
  In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.
• INFRAORBITAL
  Below the orbit; as, the infraorbital foramen; the infraorbital nerve.
• EXORBITATE
  To go out of the track; to deviate. Bentley.
• ANTEORBITAL
  See ANTORBITAL
• INTERORBITAL
  Between the orbits; as, the interorbital septum.
• SORBITION
  The act of drinking or sipping.
• EXORBITANT
  to go out of the track; ex out + orbita track: cf. F. exorbitant. See 1. Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive;
• ANTORBITAL
  Pertaining to, or situated in, the region of the front of the orbit. -- n.
• SORBITE
  A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance. -- Sor*bit"ic, a.
• EXORBITANCE; EXORBITANCY
  A going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands. "a curb to your exorbitancies." Dryden.