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orbital

Syllabification: (or·bit·al)

Pronunciation: /ˈôrbitl/

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Definition of orbital

adjective

of or relating to an orbit or orbits.
British (of a road) passing around the outside of a town.

noun

Physics

each of the actual or potential patterns of electron density that may be formed in an atom or molecule by one or more electrons, and that can be represented as a wave function.