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Meanings of meteor in English
Visible streak of light from a meteoroid that enters the earth's atmosphere.
1943 Fighter aircraft family by Gloster; Britain's first jet fighter.
Related terms
Portuguese
meteoróide Catalan
meteoroide (Astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere.
Russian
meteor Metric for the evaluation of machine translation output.
Usage of meteor in English
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I have felt it in the ocean-inthe falling of a meteor.
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Everything depends, of course, on what one means by the word meteor.
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Perhaps their initial thought is that it is similar to a meteor.
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Or a meteor causes the volcanoes to erupt and change the weather.
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This summer saw a particularly dramatic display from the Perseid meteor shower.
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He called Mr Pitt a meteor; Sir Robert Walpole a fixed star.
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Observed an exceedingly bright meteor shoot across the sky to the northward.
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Here is everything you need to know about the upcoming meteor shower.
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Dark clear skies are the most important ingredient in observing meteor showers.
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A shuttle launch, new Hubble images, a meteor shower, a shuttle landing.
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From meteor showers to lunar and solar events, 2020 has it all.
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A meteor, perhaps; a bit of cosmic dust-thereare many shattered comets.
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Remember the wire we ran into after the meteor defenses wrecked us?
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Those are glassy fragments produced whenever a meteor collides with the earth.
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Abruptly, with the splendour of a meteor, the morning star shot up.
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It fell vertically, whirling, and vanished with the speed of a meteor.
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Meteor across language varieties
South Africa
Common
United States of America
Rare
United Kingdom
Rare