MEANING
To alter an orbit so that its path becomes circular or closer to circular.
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Words that belong together
- circularize an orbit
- circularization burn
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A short burn circularized the orbit.
The probe circularized before deploying its instruments.
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Word forms
- Base
- circularize
- Past tense
- circularized
- Past participle
- circularized
- Present participle
- circularizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- circularize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are circularizing
- Present perfect
- have/has circularized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been circularizing
- Past
- circularized
- Past continuous
- was/were circularizing
- Past perfect
- had circularized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been circularizing
- Future
- will circularize
- Future continuous
- will be circularizing
- Future perfect
- will have circularized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been circularizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: circularize; circularizes; circularized; circularized; circularizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: circularizes.
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