"near-Earth object" meaning in English

See near-Earth object in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: near-Earth objects [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} near-Earth object (plural near-Earth objects)
  1. (astronomy) A small Solar System body (ie. asteroid, comet, or large meteoroid) whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth's orbit. Categories (topical): Astronomy Hypernyms: astronomical object, celestial body, minor planet, small Solar System body Hyponyms: near-Earth asteroid (alt: NEA), near-Earth comet (alt: NEC), potentially hazardous object (alt: PHO) Derived forms: NEO Related terms: near-Earth asteroid (alt: NEA), near-Earth comet (alt: NEC) Translations (asteroid, comet or large meteoroid whose orbit intersects Earth's orbit): földközeli objektum (Hungarian), навколозе́мний об'є́кт (navkolozémnyj obʺjékt) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-near-Earth_object-en-noun-gEoar8cU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for near-Earth object meaning in English (2.1kB)

{
  "abbreviations": [
    {
      "word": "NEO"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "near-Earth objects",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "near-Earth object (plural near-Earth objects)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Astronomy",
          "orig": "en:Astronomy",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "Space",
            "All topics",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "NEO"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small Solar System body (ie. asteroid, comet, or large meteoroid) whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth's orbit."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "astronomical object"
        },
        {
          "word": "celestial body"
        },
        {
          "word": "minor planet"
        },
        {
          "word": "small Solar System body"
        }
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "alt": "NEA",
          "word": "near-Earth asteroid"
        },
        {
          "alt": "NEC",
          "word": "near-Earth comet"
        },
        {
          "alt": "PHO",
          "word": "potentially hazardous object"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-near-Earth_object-en-noun-gEoar8cU",
      "links": [
        [
          "astronomy",
          "astronomy"
        ],
        [
          "small Solar System body",
          "small Solar System body#English"
        ],
        [
          "asteroid",
          "asteroid#English"
        ],
        [
          "comet",
          "comet#English"
        ],
        [
          "meteoroid",
          "meteoroid#English"
        ],
        [
          "orbit",
          "orbit#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(astronomy) A small Solar System body (ie. asteroid, comet, or large meteoroid) whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth's orbit."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "alt": "NEA",
          "word": "near-Earth asteroid"
        },
        {
          "alt": "NEC",
          "word": "near-Earth comet"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "asteroid, comet or large meteoroid whose orbit intersects Earth's orbit",
          "word": "földközeli objektum"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "navkolozémnyj obʺjékt",
          "sense": "asteroid, comet or large meteoroid whose orbit intersects Earth's orbit",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "навколозе́мний об'є́кт"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "near-Earth object"
}
{
  "abbreviations": [
    {
      "word": "NEO"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "NEO"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "near-Earth objects",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "near-Earth object (plural near-Earth objects)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "astronomical object"
    },
    {
      "word": "celestial body"
    },
    {
      "word": "minor planet"
    },
    {
      "word": "small Solar System body"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "alt": "NEA",
      "word": "near-Earth asteroid"
    },
    {
      "alt": "NEC",
      "word": "near-Earth comet"
    },
    {
      "alt": "PHO",
      "word": "potentially hazardous object"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "alt": "NEA",
      "word": "near-Earth asteroid"
    },
    {
      "alt": "NEC",
      "word": "near-Earth comet"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Astronomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small Solar System body (ie. asteroid, comet, or large meteoroid) whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth's orbit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "astronomy",
          "astronomy"
        ],
        [
          "small Solar System body",
          "small Solar System body#English"
        ],
        [
          "asteroid",
          "asteroid#English"
        ],
        [
          "comet",
          "comet#English"
        ],
        [
          "meteoroid",
          "meteoroid#English"
        ],
        [
          "orbit",
          "orbit#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(astronomy) A small Solar System body (ie. asteroid, comet, or large meteoroid) whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth's orbit."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "asteroid, comet or large meteoroid whose orbit intersects Earth's orbit",
      "word": "földközeli objektum"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "navkolozémnyj obʺjékt",
      "sense": "asteroid, comet or large meteoroid whose orbit intersects Earth's orbit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "навколозе́мний об'є́кт"
    }
  ],
  "word": "near-Earth object"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.