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Webster 1913 Edition
Meteoroid
Me′te-or-oid
(mē′tē̍-ẽr-oid)
, Noun.
[
Meteor
+ -oid
.] (Astron.)
A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth’s atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor.
These bodies [small, solid bodies] before they come into the air, I call
meteoroids
. H. A. Newton.
Definition 2024
meteoroid
meteoroid
English
Noun
meteoroid (plural meteoroids)
- (astronomy) A relatively small (sand- to boulder-sized) fragment of debris in a star system that produces a meteor when it hits the atmosphere
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small debris in a star system
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