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suborbital definition

sub·or·bital (sub ôr′bit'l)

adjective

  1. designating or of a flight in which a rocket, spacecraft, etc. follows a ballistic trajectory of less than one orbit
  2. beneath the orbit of the eye

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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