/ɔːb//ɔrb/
- n.
- 球，天体，球状物
- vt.
- 成圆形，成球形
中文释义来自 ECDICT
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词源链
- 英语English
orb
词源说明
From Middle English orbe, from Old French orbe, from Latin orbis (“circle, orb”). Compare orbit.
释义
名词noun
- 1A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
- 2Celestial sphere; one of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions.
- 3(architecture) A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere.
- 4An orbit of an heavenly body
- 5rareThe time period of an orbit.