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meteor::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | meteoroid |
| Type of | estraterrestrial body, extraterrestrial object |
| Has types | meteor swarm, meteorite |
| Derivation | meteoric |
meteor::noun | Spocien Dictionary
a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | shooting star |
| Type of | light, visible radiation, visible light |
| Has types | bolide, fireball |
Examples of meteor
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It'll take a 14-mile-wide meteor impact to destroy the biosphere of this planet.
From the independent.co.uk
For best viewing of a meteor shower, find a dark location away from city lights.
From the post-gazette.com
They trap extraterrestrial gases in space and travel to the earth in the meteor.
From the sciencedaily.com
The park gates will be open all night for the Perseid meteor shower watch party.
From the chron.com
He shares them with the university's meteor expert Anthony Love for examination.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Duke is a meteor that always comes back, and the cloud that never stops raining.
From the usatoday.com
Ideal moonless skies might have given us meteor rates in excess of 100 per hour.
From the guardian.co.uk
On a clear night the Quadrantid ranks among the most spectacular meteor showers.
From the guardian.co.uk
The group had not met in some time and just happened to be there for the meteor.
From the huffingtonpost.com
- Meteoroid: (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
- A streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode
- A meteoroid is a sand- to boulder-sized particle of debris in the Solar System. The visible path of a meteoroid that enters Earth's (or another body's) atmosphere is called a meteor, or colloquially a shooting star or falling star. ...
- METEOR (Metric for Evaluation of Translation with Explicit ORdering) is a metric for the evaluation of machine translation output. The metric is based on the harmonic mean of unigram precision and recall, with recall weighted higher than precision. ...
- A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body travelling through outer space. Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in size from small grains to 1 meter-wide objects. Objects smaller than this are classified as micrometeoroids or space dust. Most are fragments from comets or asteroids, whereas others are collision impact debris ejected from bodies such as the Moon or Mars.
- Meteor! is a 1987 children's picture book by author Patricia Polacco. Polacco is well known for writing and illustrating novels depicting events from her childhood in Michigan. Meteor! was published in 1987 by The Trumpet Club, commonly known for publications of childrenu2019s books from grades PreK-6...
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- The BSA Meteor air rifle is one of the worlds best selling air powered weapons with over 2 million sold worldwide. Used for both sport and hunting training it has proven itself to be both accurate and reliable. Using the spring piston action and available in both .177 and . ...
- Any atmospheric phenomenon. (Thus the derivation of meteorology.) These were sometimes classified as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (hydrometeors: clouds, rain, snow, hail, dew, frost), luminous meteors (rainbows and aurora), and igneous or fiery meteors (lightning ...
