meteoroid

English

Etymology

meteor +‎ -oid

Pronunciation

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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

Hypernyms

celestial object

Hyponyms

micrometeoroid

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

small debris in a star system

Arabic: نَيْزَك‎‎ (nayzak)
Esperanto: meteoroido
Finnish: meteoroidi (fi)
Icelandic: reikisteinn m, geimsteinn (is) m, geimgrýti n
Persian: شهاب‌وار‎‎ (šahâb-vâr), نیزک‎‎ (neyzak)

Polish: meteoroid (pl)
Portuguese: meteoróide (pt) m
Spanish: meteoroide (es) m
Tagalog: bulalayak

References

meteoroid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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