All languages combined word senses marked with topical category "Lagrange points"
Parent categories: Orbits, Astronautics, Curves, Gravity, Space, Applied sciences, Shapes, Acceleration, Astrophysics, Mechanics, Nature, Sciences, Geometry, Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics, Formal sciences
Total 25 word senses
- JWST (Proper name) [English] Initialism of James Webb Space Telescope.
- L1 (Noun) [English] Abbreviation of Lagrange point 1, located between the larger and smaller objects along a line connecting the two.
- L2 (Noun) [English] A second language (a language being learned, as opposed to mother tongue).
- L2 (Noun) [English] Abbreviation of Lagrange point 2, located beyond the smaller object on a line passing through the centers of the smaller and larger objects.
- L2 (Noun) [English] Short for second level in various contexts; The second-level cache of a processor, farther away from the processor than the first level cache.
- L2 (Noun) [English] Short for second level in various contexts; The data link layer in the seven layer OSI network model.
- L3 (Noun) [English] Abbreviation of Lagrange point 3, located 180 degrees away from the smaller object and slightly outside the smaller object's orbit around the larger object.
- L4 (Noun) [English] Abbreviation of Lagrange point 4, located 60 degrees ahead of the smaller object along its orbit around the larger object.
- L5 (Noun) [English] Abbreviation of Lagrange point 5, located 60 degrees behind the smaller object along its orbit around the larger object.
- Lagrange point (Noun) [English] A point in an orbital configuration of a two-body system where a small object affected only by gravity can theoretically be stationary relative to the two larger objects.
- Lagrangian (Adjective) [English] Relating to Lagrangian mechanics.
- Lagrangian (Adjective) [English] Of or relating to a Lagrange point.
- Lagrangian (Noun) [English] An object residing in a Lagrange point.
- Lagrangian (Noun) [English] Ellipsis of Lagrangian point; a Lagrange point.
- Lagrangian point (Noun) [English] Alternative form of Lagrange point
- Lissajous orbit (Noun) [English] A quasiperiodic orbital trajectory that an object can follow around a Lagrangian point of a three-body system without requiring any propulsion.
- Lyapunov orbit (Noun) [English] In the restricted three-body problem, a curved path around a Lagrangian point that lies entirely in the plane of the two primary bodies.
- Trojan asteroid (Noun) [English] by extension, any asteroid occupying a Trojan point
- Trojan moon (Noun) [English] A pseudo-moon that occupies a Trojan point of a system.
- Trojan planet (Noun) [English] a planet that occupies a Trojan point of a star system
- Trojan point (Noun) [English] the L4 and L5 Lagrange points of the Sun-Jupiter orbital configuration
- Trojan point (Noun) [English] by extension, any L4 and L5 Lagrange points
- halo orbit (Noun) [English] A periodic, three-dimensional orbit about any one of the Lagrange points L₁, L₂ or L₃ of a two-body gravitational system.
- libration point (Noun) [English] Synonym of Lagrange point
- trojan (Adjective) [English] Describing a satellite (moon or minor planet) that shares an orbit with another
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