different between debris vs meteoroid
debris
English
Alternative forms
- débris
Etymology
Borrowed from French débris, itself from dé- (“de-”) + bris (“broken, crumbled”), or from Middle French debriser (“to break apart”), from Old French debrisier, itself from de- + brisier (“to break apart, shatter, bust”), from Frankish *bristijan, *bristan, *brestan (“to break violently, shatter, bust”), from Proto-Germanic *brestan? (“to break, burst”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rest- (“to separate, burst”). Cognate with Old High German bristan (“to break asunder, burst”), Old English berstan (“to break, shatter, burst”). More at burst.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?b?i?/, /?de?b?i?/
- (US) IPA(key): /d??b?i?/
Noun
debris (uncountable)
- Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:debris
- Litter and discarded refuse.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trash
- The ruins of a broken-down structure.
- (geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.
Translations
Anagrams
- Brides, biders, birdes, brides, rebids, sibred
debris From the web:
- what debris means
- what debris is in space
- what debris was found from challenger
- what debris is left on the moon
- what debris was found from flight 93
- what debris is on the moon
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- what debris synonym
meteoroid
English
Etymology
meteor +? -oid
Pronunciation
Noun
meteoroid (plural meteoroids)
- (astronomy) A relatively small (sand- to boulder-sized) fragment of debris in a star system that produces a meteor when it hits the atmosphere
Hypernyms
- celestial object
Hyponyms
- micrometeoroid
Derived terms
- micrometeoroid
- meteoroidal
Related terms
- meteor
- meteorite
- meteoritic
- meteoritics
- meteoriticist
- meteorology
Translations
References
- meteoroid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?.t?.??r?.it/
Noun
meteoroid m inan
- (astronomy) meteoroid
Declension
Further reading
- meteoroid in Polish dictionaries at PWN
meteoroid From the web:
- what meteoroid strikes earth
- meteoroids meaning
- what meteoroid burns up
- what is a meteoroid that enters earth's atmosphere
- meteoroid what does it do
- what does meteoroid mean
- what are meteoroids made of
- what is meteoroids in hindi
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