Meteor
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
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
polysemous
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- meteoroidshooting star
- plural
- Meteors
- possessive
- Meteor's
- pluralpossessive
- Meteors'