orbitally en · ADV
Etymology
Etymology tree English orbital Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English orbitally From orbital + -ly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) By means of or in relation to orbit
The task of population estimation differs in three important respects from many other applications of orbitally acquired data.
2002, J.T. Harvey, “Estimating census district populations from satellite imagery”, in International Journal of Remote Sensing, volume 23, number 10:Patterns of glaciation have been orbitally influenced.
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(not-comparable) By means of or in relation to an orbital or orbitals
The e_g levels, or bands, in which the charge carriers move are orbitally degenerate.
1999, Jeroen van den Brink, Daniel Khomskii, “Double Exchange via Degenerate Orbitals”, in Physical Review Letters, volume 82, number 5:
Deriveds
intraorbitally · retro-orbitally · transorbitally · postorbitally · infraorbitally · periorbitally