Meteor
nounid
93049·updated May 18, 2026verified
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
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Information Class
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Variants
- synonym
- meteoroidshooting star
- plural
- Meteors
- possessive
- Meteor's
- pluralpossessive
- Meteors'
Framework definitions
- §1
- (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
- §2
- 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
- §1 · legacy_primary
- 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 explodeDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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