meteorite
nounUK /ˈmiː.tɪ.ə.ɹaɪt/ · US /ˈmi.ti.əˌɹaɪt/
Etymology From meteor + -ite.
1
A metallic or stony object or body that is the remains of a meteoroid.
- The Vestan, Lunar, and Martian meteorites are achondrites.2011, Dieter Rehder, Chemistry in Space:
- Approximately 1.25 miles of Virginia Highway 58 was rerouted to merge with US Highway 25E south of the gap. This photograph shows the phenomenon of the “fogfall,” when fog trapped in the meteorite crater of Middlesboro escapes […]2014, Martha Evans Wiley, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, page 117:
- Synonyms
- meteorite
- Derived terms
- iron meteorite, meteoritic, meteoriticist, meteoritics, meteorwrong, micrometeorite, nuclearite, pseudometeorite
- Related terms
- meteor, meteoroid, meteorology, achondrite, aerolite, angrite, asteroid, aubrite, chassignite, chondrite, fireball, nakhlite, shergottite, ureilite, baetyl, tektite
- Hypernyms
- entity
- Hyponyms
- Leonid, achondrite, aerolite, aerolith, ataxite, chondrite, diogenite, hexahedrite, howardite, lodranite, mesosiderite, moldavite, nonchondrite, oligosiderite, pallasite, shergottite, siderite, siderolite
- Meronyms
- alabandite, chondrule, clinoenstatite, hibonite, kamacite, taenite, troilite