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Meaning of "meteoroid" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF METEOROID

ˈmiːtɪəˌrɔɪd


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF METEOROID

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Meteoroid is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES METEOROID MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Meteoroid

A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body travelling through space. Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in size from small grains to 1 meter-wide objects. Smaller objects than this are classified as micrometeoroids or space dust. Most are fragments from comets or asteroids, while others are collision impact debris ejected from bodies such as the Moon or Mars. When such an object enters the Earth's atmosphere at a speed typically in excess of 20 km/s, aerodynamic heating produces a streak of light, both from the glowing object and the trail of glowing particles that it leaves in its wake. This phenomenon is called a meteor, or colloquially a "shooting star" or "falling star". A series of many meteors appearing seconds or minutes apart, and appearing to originate from the same fixed point in the sky, is called a meteor shower. Incoming objects larger than several meters can explode in the air. If a meteoroid, comet or asteroid or a piece thereof withstands ablation from its atmospheric entry and impacts with the ground, then it is called a meteorite.

Definition of meteoroid in the English dictionary

The definition of meteoroid in the dictionary is any of the small celestial bodies that are thought to orbit the sun, possibly as the remains of comets. When they enter the earth's atmosphere, they become visible as meteors.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH METEOROID

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE METEOROID

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WORDS THAT END LIKE METEOROID

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Synonyms and antonyms of meteoroid in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «meteoroid» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF METEOROID

Find out the translation of meteoroid to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of meteoroid from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «meteoroid» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

流星
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

meteoroide
570 millions of speakers
en

English

meteoroid
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

उल्कापिंड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نيزك
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

метеороид
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

meteoróide
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

meteoroid
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

météorite
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Meteoroid
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Sternschnuppe
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

流星物質
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

유성체
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Meteoroid
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thiên thạch
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

எரிக்கற்களால்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

उल्कापेशी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

meteoroid
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

meteoroide
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

meteoryt
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

метеороид
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

meteoroid
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

meteoroid
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

meteoroid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

meteoroid
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

meteoroide
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of meteoroid

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «METEOROID»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of meteoroid
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about meteoroid

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METEOROID»

Discover the use of meteoroid in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to meteoroid and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Lunar Meteoroid Impacts and How to Observe Them
This book looks at the way the Moon has been shaped by meteorites, proposes lunar meteorites as the most likely cause of most LTPs and describes in practical detail how amateur astronomers can observe impacts on the Moon, past and current.
Brian Cudnik, 2010
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Advances in Meteoroid and Meteor Science
4 New model of Meteoroid Fragments Separation Various models for meteoroid fragmentation caused by aerodynamic strength failure were proposed previously by, among others, Baldwin and Sheaffer (1971), Grigoryan (1979), Hills and ...
Frans J.M. Rietmeijer, D. Janches, J. M. Trigo-Rodriguez, 2008
3
Sensor for detecting meteoroid penetration of pressurized cells
Cold cathode glow discharge tube for detecting meteoroid puncture of pressurized cells.
Leonard R. McMaster, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Research Center, 1971
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Meteoroid hazard evaluation for simple structures with ...
A statistical analysis was performed with use of Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's data on photographic meteors with use of weighting factors developed at Lewis Research Center for correction of various biases involved in meteor ...
Cearoy D. Miller, 1970
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The Lunar Orbiter meteoroid experiments: Description and ...
Meteoroid experiments by five Lunar Orbiters have provided a direct measurement in the near-lunar environment of the rate of meteoroid penetration of 0.025-mm-thick beryllium-copper.
Gary W. Grew, 1971
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Limiting Future Collision Risk to Spacecraft:: An Assessment ...
An Assessment of NASA's Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Programs Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, National Research Council. of shape in the standard breakup model.
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, National Research Council, 2011
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Meteoroid/Debris Shielding
Both represent a threat to spacecraft survivability and crew safety primarily because of the potentially high-impact speeds and energy involved in collisions between spacecraft and meteoroid/debris particles. Meteoroid and debris impacts are ...
Eric Lewis Christiansen, 2003
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Meteors in the Earth's Atmosphere: Meteoroids and Cosmic ...
Knowledge of these reflection processes enables us to understand the characteristics of meteor radar echoes so that those radar signatures permit the measurement of meteoroid masses. velocities. ablation heights and atmospheric  ...
Edmond Murad, Iwan P. Williams, 2002
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Accretion of Extraterrestrial Matter Throughout Earth’s History
The near-Earth meteoroid impact rate determined from these early measurements was so high, compared to the meteoritic spatial density deduced from zodiacal light measurements, that Whipple (1961a,b) and Hibbs (1961) both posited that ...
Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Birger Schmitz, 2001
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Determination of the Meteoroid Ionization Coefficient Using ...
Most meteoroids have physical cross-sections too small to detect by ground based sensors.
Stephen Hunt, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «METEOROID»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term meteoroid is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Under the Dome' 3.05 Recap: “Screw You for Ruining a Perfect Day”
Marston explains that an archaeology team in Alaska discovered a powerful energy source (another egg) at a meteoroid crash site, but anyone ... «High-Def Digest, Jul 15»
2
Killjoys: A Glitch in the System Review
Season 1, Episode 5 (“A Glitch in the System”) saw Dutch, John, and D'avin boarding a seemingly abandoned cargo ship afloat in a meteoroid ... «Den of Geek!, Jul 15»
3
Close call at space station ends with 'all clear'
Space debris encompasses both natural (meteoroid) and artificial (man-made) particles. However, this mighty orbital outpost could suffer a ... «Sentinel Republic, Jul 15»
4
NASA's ISS... Astronauts Do A Super Scramble After Close Pass By …
Space debris encompasses both natural (meteoroid) and artificial (man-made) particles. Meteoroids are in orbit about the sun, while most ... «SatNews Publishers, Jul 15»
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Delaware Park results July 7
Meteoroid (A Wolfsont) $4.80 $2.80. Minor Crisis (D Centeno) $2.60. Daily Double (2-11) $8.30; Exacta (11-3) $11.00; Superfecta (11-3-6-5) ... «The News Journal, Jul 15»
6
Ask the Naturalist: What's the Best Time and Place to See Meteors?
... a two-inch meteorite struck a Novato house in 2012; scientists determined that it broke from its parent meteoroid some 470 million years ago. «Bay Nature, Jul 15»
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Under the Dome Recap 7/2/15: Season 3 Episode 3 "Redux"
Jim turns the camera on and we see Christine talking about the meteoroid and that the target is in Chester's Mill. She digs up the egg and looks ... «Celebrity Dirty Laundry, Jul 15»
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Scientists reveal tsunami threat to King's Lynn from asteroid strike
The 7,000-tonne meteoroid exploded in the skies with the force of 30 atomic bombs, blowing out windows, destroying buildings and injuring ... «Lynn News, Jul 15»
9
US Southeast Sees 'Out Of Space' Objects Fall Out
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Meteoroid Environment Office head, Bill Cooke stated he doubt that light was a meteor. If anything, Cooke ... «The Standard Daily, Jul 15»
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Nasa says bright lights over Georgia were 'not a meteor'
Bill Cooke, Nasa's head of the Meteoroid Environment Office, said that the object was reported to "have multiple colours and to have broken up ... «Wired.co.uk, Jun 15»
REFERENCE
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