deorbit
/diˈɔɹbɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.59 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1996, DIANE Publishing Company, Intelligence Threat Handbook The principal improvements in the systems are the ability to return film canisters without deorbiting the spacecraft, and the extension of orbital […]"
- "First, an orbiting weapon required elaborate spacecraft systems, such as retro-rockets to deorbit it, others to guide it, and still others to arm it."
- "[…] process will be initiated and over approximately one year the satellites will be maneuvered into an orbit that will eventually safely deorbit them."
- "The Gemini emergency occurred when Gemini 8 deorbited and landed in the Northern Pacific 1000 miles south of Japan."
- "Vostok 3 deorbited first, at 09.24 MT on 15 August, followed six minutes later by Vostok 4."
- "Viktor is a friend of mine," she says. "He tells me that he has had strange dreams since Mir deorbited.""
Etymology
From de- + orbit.