MEANING
To leave or cause something to leave orbit, typically by changing its path toward atmospheric entry.
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Words that belong together
- deorbit a satellite
- deorbit burn
On the page
Controllers deorbited the obsolete satellite.
The capsule deorbited after separating from the station.
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Word forms
- Base
- deorbit
- Past tense
- deorbited
- Past participle
- deorbited
- Present participle
- deorbiting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- deorbit
- Present continuous
- am/is/are deorbiting
- Present perfect
- have/has deorbited
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been deorbiting
- Past
- deorbited
- Past continuous
- was/were deorbiting
- Past perfect
- had deorbited
- Past perfect continuous
- had been deorbiting
- Future
- will deorbit
- Future continuous
- will be deorbiting
- Future perfect
- will have deorbited
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been deorbiting
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: deorbit; deorbits; deorbited; deorbited; deorbiting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: deorbits.
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