Delay and Orbit

Delay

Delay noun - An instance or period of being prevented from going about one's business.

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Orbit and delay are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Orbit" instead a noun "Delay".

Nearby Words: delayed, delaying, delayer

Orbit noun - The (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another.

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Delay and orbit are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Delay" instead a noun "Orbit".

Nearby Words: orbited, orbiting, orbital

high	high delay	high orbit
low	low delay	low orbit
long	long delay	long orbit
similar	similar delay	similar orbit
Other adjectives: normal, lower, temporary, arbitrary, odd.

delay life

orbit life

The orbit-to-land transmissions lack any delay at all, which is impossible if they were ordinary radiowaves.

Source: Subspace Ansible
The manga devotes several chapters to Tanabe being pregnant with Hachi's child, and the news of her giving birth to his son reaching him with a delay of several minutes (They're in the orbit of Jupiter, after all).

Source: Manga / Planetes
It takes until the end of the episode that those shots return because he had fired them in such a way that they would be pulled into low Earth orbit and he was using the time delay of their return trajectory (approximately 6 hours) to plan out a trap for the upcoming space battle.

Source: Stray Shots Strike Nothing

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