meteoroid

English

Etymology

meteor +‎ -oid

Pronunciation

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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

Related terms

Translations

small debris in a star system

Arabic: نَيْزَك‎ (nayzak)
Esperanto: meteoroido
Finnish: meteoroidi (fi)
Icelandic: reikisteinn m, geimsteinn (is) m, geimgrýti n
Persian: شهاب‌وار‎ (šahâb-vâr), نیزک‎ (neyzak)

Polish: meteoroid (pl)
Portuguese: meteoróide (pt) m
Spanish: meteoroide (es) m
Tagalog: bulalayak

References

meteoroid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɛ.tɛ.ɔˈrɔ.it/

Noun

meteoroid m inan

(astronomy) meteoroid

Declension

declension of meteoroid

	singular	plural
nominative	meteoroid	meteoroidy
genitive	meteoroidu	meteoroidów
dative	meteoroidowi	meteoroidom
accusative	meteoroid	meteoroidy
instrumental	meteoroidem	meteoroidami
locative	meteoroidzie	meteoroidach
vocative	meteoroidzie	meteoroidy

Further reading

meteoroid in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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