"meteoroid" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-us-meteoroid.ogg [US] Forms: meteoroids [plural]
Etymology: meteor + -oid Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|meteor|oid}} meteor + -oid Head templates: {{en-noun}} meteoroid (plural meteoroids)
  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 Categories (topical): Astronomy Hypernyms: celestial object Hyponyms: micrometeoroid Derived forms: micrometeoroid, meteoroidal Related terms: meteor, meteorite, meteoritic, meteoritics, meteoriticist, meteorology Translations (small debris in a star system): نَيْزَك (nayzak) (Arabic), meteoroido (Esperanto), meteoroidi (Finnish), météoroïde [masculine] (French), Meteorit [masculine] (German), reikisteinn [masculine] (Icelandic), geimsteinn [masculine] (Icelandic), geimgrýti [neuter] (Icelandic), dreigeoideach [masculine] (Irish), meteoroide [masculine] (Italian), شهابوار (šahâb-vâr) (Persian), نیزک (neyzak) (Persian), meteoroid (Polish), meteoróide [masculine] (Portuguese), meteoroide [masculine] (Spanish), bulalayak (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-meteoroid-en-noun-B4XcDzIZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -oid Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences

Inflected forms

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