What is the meaning of degenerate orbitals?
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A degenerate orbital is an electron state for which excitation energies are the same or nearly the same, but different states of origin cause their electrons to experience different types of interactions with external fields.
Since degenerate orbitals have roughly similar energies and identical interactions, their phase space integrals will be similar so they can coexist in one-dimensional representations. The actual configurations in three dimensions are not necessarily related to each other