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meteor
  1. (archaic) Any atmospheric phenomenon. (Thus the derivation of meteorology.) These were sometimes classified as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (hydrometeors: clouds, rain, snow, hail, dew, frost), luminous meteors (rainbows and aurora), and igneous or fiery meteors (lightning and shooting stars [next]).
  2. A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere: A shooting star or falling star.
  3. (juggling) A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.
  4. (martial arts) A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Light from a passing meteor is recorded on several security cameras.”
meteorology
  1. The science that deals with the study of the atmosphere and its phenomena, especially with weather and its behavior and weather forecasting.
  2. The atmospheric phenomena in a specific region or period.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Imagine how limited our weather forecasting would be without meteorology satellites.”
      “Kochin's research was on meteorology, gas dynamics and shock waves in compressible fluids.”
      “An autodidact and a polymath, Wallace studied economics, meteorology, history, genetics, and many other subjects.”
meteorologist
  1. a person who studies meteorology
  2. a weather forecaster
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  4. Examples:
    1. “She is now deeply involved in study for AS levels and is contemplating a career as a meteorologist.”
      “He is a meteorologist in Florida with a sideline in helping lightning-strike victims.”
      “Ned is a meteorologist devoted to science and logic, the counterpoint to his sister and her belief in curses and irrational fate.”
meteoroid
  1. (astronomy) A relatively small (sand- to boulder-sized) fragment of debris in a star system that produces a meteor when it hits the atmosphere
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In that narrower meaning, meteoroid is usually linked with the terms meteor, meteorite, or both.”
      “An extremely bright meteoroid larger than a few centimetres in diameter entering our atmosphere is rare and is called a fireball.”
      “How and where might astronauts create a habitat on Mars which would give them some protection from meteoroid impacts?”
meteorograph
  1. A device used to measure various meteorological conditions, such as the temperature and humidity.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In most cases, data collected with the meteorograph is recovered only when the instrument is jettisoned from the balloon or airplane carrying it.”
      “The data could not be evaluated until after the observation was completed and the kite and meteorograph were brought back to the ground.”
      “However, the records of temperature and humidity could not be examined until the meteorograph had been recovered, and they were not therefore an immediate aid for forecasting.”
meteoromancy
  1. Divination by interpreting meteorological phenomena such as meteors.
meteorwrong
  1. (humorous) A rock that is initially believed to be a meteorite, but is in fact terrestrial in origin.
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meteorite
  1. A metallic or stony object or body that is the remains of a meteor.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The new discovery of polar dinosaurs is a problem for the meteorite theory, but can be explained within the Flood paradigm.”
      “A well-known older astrobleme situated in the margin of the Mesoprotozoic Superior craton provides a good example of meteorite fall.”
      “Vredefort Dome, approximately 120km south west of Johannesburg, is a representative part of a larger meteorite impact structure, or astrobleme.”
meteorography
meteorolite
meteoritics
  1. (astronomy) A science that deals with meteors and meteorites
  2. Examples:
    1. “Against this background, the German physicist Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni began the science of meteoritics in 1794, when he defended the trustworthiness of accounts of falls.”
      “All are valuable on Earth because they are rare – a consequence of how the planet formed, said Sara Russell, head of meteoritics at the Natural History Museum.”
      “Notkin has written more than 150 published articles on meteoritics, paleontology, adventure travel, history, and the arts, and is the author of three books.”
meteoriticist
  1. A scientist involved in meteoritics.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Microscopic inspection of mineral textures and electron microprobe measurements of 20 tiny fragments show that they must be from a meteorite, says the group, which includes meteoriticist Michail Petaev of Harvard University.”
      “To examine a meteorite, a meteoriticist must look at the rock's internal matrix by cutting away a piece.”
      Meteoriticist Edward Anders, retired from the University of Chicago in Illinois, recalls an earlier episode of intriguingly lifelike objects in a meteorite.”
meteoriticists
  1. plural of meteoriticist
meteorologists
  1. plural of meteorologist
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  3. Examples:
    1. “She is ready in body, mind and soul for the moment her meteorologists tell her the time is right.”
      “In every country the meteorologists are thinking that these anomalies are just present in their region.”
      “And in the course of the afternoon, meteorologists tell us the eye of the hurricane will start to pass over this island itself.”
meteorographies
  1. plural of meteorography
meteorographs
  1. plural of meteorograph
meteorolites
  1. plural of meteorolite
meteorwrongs
meteorologies
meteorites
  1. plural of meteorite
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Based on their texture, stone meteorites are divided into two types, the chondrites and the achondrites.”
      “The shop offers a wide range of Lunar and Martian meteorites along with many rare achondrites and chondrites.”
      “Sources of other specific meteorites remain unproven, although another set of eight achondrites are suspected to have come from Mars.”
meteoroids
  1. plural of meteoroid
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Given these evidences, we contend that there is a direct influence of ablating meteoroids on the topside of the mesospheric metal layer.”
      “The basic purpose was to validate the hypothesis that the meteoroids were generated by fragmentation processes under violent conditions.”
      “He studies small bodies in the solar system, including meteors, meteoroids and asteroids.”
meteors
  1. plural of meteor
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The chunks and pieces of the planet after the explosion could explain the asteroids, meteors and comets.”
      “Astronomers may see meteors produced by the annual Perseid shower, before pointing their telescopes at distant galaxies and star clusters.”
      “Past displays have featured a richness of both fireballs and faint meteors but have included fewer objects of medium brightness.”
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