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bolide
[ boh-lahyd, -lid ]
bolide
/ -lɪd; ˈbəʊlaɪd /
noun
- a large exceptionally bright meteor that often explodes Also calledfireball
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Origin of bolide1
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Origin of bolide1
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Astrophysicists say it was a bolide, or a meteor that explodes in the air.
It said blandly that a bolide—a slow-moving, large meteoric object—had been observed by radar to be descending to earth.
A bolide had fallen into the Catanian sea—he took me to the port and showed me precisely where.
They stopped arguing about last night's bolide to take ringside seats.
The argument on the path of last night's bolide and why it fell where it did is again in order.
It was the sound of the bolide's passage, arriving after the object itself had dived into the sea.
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