Interest and Orbit

Interest

Interest noun - A legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something.

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

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

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

Nearby Words: orbited, orbiting, orbital

close	close interest	close orbit
particular	particular interest	particular orbit
current	current interest	current orbit
original	original interest	original orbit
Other adjectives: strong, real, main, new, former, temporary, shared, different.

X Rebirth has "space highways" similar to the trade lanes in Freelancer, which are meandering one-way paths of energy that will propel ships to high speeds in order to get between different zones (points of interest) in planetary orbit; ships are free to move around and exit highways at any point.

Source: Hyperspace Lanes
There's some interest in creating Rods From God, telephone pole-sized flechettes composed of ultradense material (probably tungsten) dropped from orbit.

Source: Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
The game uses explicit solar systems, with sectors being in orbit around different planets while zones (equivalent to the sectors of previous games) connect points-of-interest.

Source: Sci Fi Writers Have / No Sense of Velocity

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