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–noun
Astronomy
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any of the small bodies, often remnants of comets, traveling through space: when such a body enters the earth's atmosphere it is heated to luminosity and becomes a meteor.
Origin:
1860–65;
meteor
+
-oid
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me·te·or·oid
(mē'tē-ə-roid')
n. A solid body, moving in space, that is smaller than an asteroid and at least as large as a speck of dust.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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meteoroid
"rock floating in space, which becomes a
meteor
when it enters Earth's atmosphere," formed in Eng. 1865.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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