FluentPlex

orbital

/ɔɹ.bət.l̩/ noun C2
  1. A specification of the energy and probability density of one or more electrons at any point in an atom or molecule, representable as a wave function.

Plural orbitals

+ Save to review

From the library

I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 7 · C1
The supra-orbital crest, the facial angle, the maxillary curve, the—”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 37 · C1

Other matches

Learn orbital in real texts

With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.

Create free account
Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.