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orbital index

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English

Syllables
or-bital in-dex
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In the skull, the ratio of the vertical height to the transverse width of the orbit, multiplied by 100. The index can range from microseme to mesoseme to megaseme, although these terms are no longer used in literature.

Inflected Forms

orbital indexes (plural) orbital indices (plural)

Synonyms

OI

Questions

What does orbital index mean?
In the skull, the ratio of the vertical height to the transverse width of the orbit, multiplied by 100. The index can range from microseme to mesoseme to megaseme, although these terms are no longer used in literature.

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