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quadrantid meteor shower

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Quad⋅ran⋅tids

  [kwo-dran-tidz]
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–noun (used with a plural verb) Astronomy.
a collection of meteors comprising a meteor shower (Quadrantid meteor shower) visible around January 31 and having its apparent origin in the constellation Boötes.
Origin:
1875–80; < NL Quadrant- (s. of Quadrāns, in Quadrāns (Mūrālis) (mural) quadrant, obs. constellation name) + -id 1 + -s 3
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