different between meteorite vs meteoroid
meteorite
English
Etymology
meteor +? -ite
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?mi?.t?.?.?a?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?mi.ti.???a?t/, /-?i-/
- Hyphenation: me?te?or?ite
Noun
meteorite (plural meteorites)
- A metallic or stony object or body that is the remains of a meteoroid.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:meteorite
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
Further reading
- meteorite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
Noun
meteorite m or f (plural meteoriti)
- meteorite
Derived terms
- micrometeorite
Anagrams
- ometterei
meteorite From the web:
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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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