Flight and Orbit

Flight

Flight noun - Travel through the air by the use of wings.

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Orbit and flight are semantically related. in trajectory topic. In some cases you can use "Orbit" instead a noun "Flight".

Nearby Words: flighty, flighted, flightless, flighting

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

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

Nearby Words: orbited, orbiting, orbital

full	full flight	full orbit
safe	safe flight	safe orbit
long	long flight	long orbit
normal	normal flight	normal orbit
Other adjectives: perfect, complete, stable, original, entire, real, successful, slow, new, permanent, strange, different.

Developed alongside space technology, such missiles literally orbit the Earth (for up to half a complete orbit) while in flight.

Source: Useful Notes / Nuclear Glossary
Eventually, they rebelled en masse, took over all the space stations in Earth's orbit, retrofitted them for flight and battle, developed the hyperdrive, and escaped.

Source: Artificial Human
While the technology of that world is quite advanced by our standards, space flight is still an impossibility for them, as Dust stops working in orbit.

Source: Magitek

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