Orbit and Set

Orbit

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

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Set and orbit are semantically related in sphere topic. In some cases you can use "Set" instead a noun "Orbit", when it comes to topics like realm.

Nearby Words: orbited, orbiting, orbital

Set noun - A group of people acting together within a larger group.

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Orbit and set are semantically related in sphere topic. Sometimes you can use "Orbit" instead a noun "Set", if it concerns topics such as realm.

Nearby Words: setup, setting

high	high orbit	high set
full	full orbit	full set
long	long orbit	long set
particular	particular orbit	particular set
Other adjectives: similar, normal, right, complete, current, standard, original, proper, entire, complicated, main, new, odd, strange, bizarre, different.

In Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, the Icarus space station is dropped out of orbit and set on a course for Volcania.

Source: Senseless Sacrifice
Second Genesis by Donald Moffitt is mostly set on a Dyson Sphere composed of planet-orbit sized disks, used to power a massive interstellar transmitter (The rest of the story is set on another of Dyson's conceptual objects, a Dyson Tree that has been converted into a Living Ship).

Source: Dyson Sphere
This caused the Earth to spiral out of orbit and set on a trajectory to the Sun!

Source: Video Game / Earth 2150

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