Meteor

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  • noun. A bright streak of light that appears in the sky when a meteoroid is heated to incandescence by friction with the earth's atmosphere.
  • noun. A meteoroid or meteorite.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Any atmospheric phenomenon.
  • noun. Specifically A transient fiery or luminous body seen in or through the atmosphere, usually in its more elevated region: a shooting-star. If it reaches the surface of the earth, it is called a meteorite, formerly aërolite, and also (very rarely) uranolite.
  • noun. A small body moving in space, and of the same nature as those which become visible by encountering our atmosphere.
  • noun. An abbreviation of meteorology, meteorological.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc.
  • noun. Specif.: A transient luminous body or appearance seen in the atmosphere, or in a more elevated region.
  • noun. A mass of stone or other substance which sometimes falls to the earth from space beyond the moon, burning up from atomospheric friction and creating a brilliant but usually very brief trail of light in the atmosphere; also called a shooting star.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere: A shooting star or falling star.
  • noun. A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.
  • noun. A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
  • noun. 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
    • Word Usage
    "The term meteor shower is somewhat misleading, because the streaks of light are generally caused by space debris no bigger than grains of sand, which hit and then burn up in the"
    cross-reference
    asteroid  comet  falling star  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    meatier  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    apparition  asteroid  avalanche  comet  conflagration  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    aerolite  asteroids  aurora particles  blackout  bolide  
    variant
    shooting star  
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