"DRO" meaning in English

See DRO in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: DROs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} DRO (plural DROs)
  1. (space science) Initialism of distant retrograde orbit. Wikidata QID: Q25098886 Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: distant retrograde orbit
    Sense id: en-DRO-en-noun-en:Q25098886 Categories (other): Space, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Orbits Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 81 19 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 96 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 95 5 Disambiguation of Orbits: 94 6 Topics: aerospace, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, space-science
  2. Initialism of digital readout. Wikidata QID: Q5276146 Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: digital readout
    Sense id: en-DRO-en-noun-en:Q5276146
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: GEO (alt: geostationary orbit/geostationary Earth orbit), GSO (alt: geosynchronous orbit/geosynchronous Earth orbit), HEO (english: highly elliptical orbit), LEO (english: low Earth orbit), LTO (english: lunar transfer orbit)

Inflected forms

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