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meteor
1. Any atmospheric phenomenon, now chiefly confined to technical use. Atmospheric phenomena were formerly often classed as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (rain, snow, hail, dew, etc.), luminous meteors (the aurora, rainbow, halo, etc.), and igneous or fiery meteors (lightning, shooting stars, etc.).
2. A luminous body seen temporarily in the sky, and supposed to belong to a lower region than that of the heavenly bodies; a fireball or shooting star (in the 17th century, also a comet).
3. The brief, bright streak of light that results when a piece of silicate or metallic rock enters the atmosphere at high speed from space and burns up.
4. Applied to other luminous appearances, as the aurora borealis, the ignis fatuus, etc.
5. Blazing or flashing like a meteor; of short duration, passing rapidly (meteoric), transient.
2. A luminous body seen temporarily in the sky, and supposed to belong to a lower region than that of the heavenly bodies; a fireball or shooting star (in the 17th century, also a comet).
3. The brief, bright streak of light that results when a piece of silicate or metallic rock enters the atmosphere at high speed from space and burns up.
4. Applied to other luminous appearances, as the aurora borealis, the ignis fatuus, etc.
5. Blazing or flashing like a meteor; of short duration, passing rapidly (meteoric), transient.
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meteoro-, meteor- +
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(Greek: upraised, high up; in the air; anything raised from the ground, high, lofty; hovering in the air; hence, "heavenly body, atmospheric phenomenon")
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ionospheric D scatter meteor burst
1. An electrical activity caused by infalling meteors that allows the penetration of radio waves from the ionosphere's D layer.
2. A disturbance that affects ionospheric scatter communications resulting from the penetration of meteors through the D region of the ionospheric layer.
2. A disturbance that affects ionospheric scatter communications resulting from the penetration of meteors through the D region of the ionospheric layer.
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ion, ion- +
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sphero-, spher-, -sphere-
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visual meteor
A meteor bright enough to be visible by the naked eyes.
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vid-, video-, vis-, -vision, -visional, -visionally, visuo-, vu-
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meteor
1. The streak of light caused by a meteoroid that passes through earth's atmosphere and the burning meteoroid, which is also called a "shooting star".
2. The streak of light seen in the night sky signifying the burning up in the earth's atmosphere of interplanetary material.
2. The streak of light seen in the night sky signifying the burning up in the earth's atmosphere of interplanetary material.
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Astronomy and related astronomical terms
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