- meteorite
- noun Date: 1824 a meteor that reaches the surface of the earth without being completely vaporized • meteoritic also meteoritical adjective
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Meteorite — Météorite Pour les articles homonymes, voir Météorite (homonymie). Météorite de Willamette. Une météorite est un corps matériel extraterrestre … Wikipédia en Français
météorite — [ meteɔrit ] n. m. ou f. • 1830; de météore ♦ Astron. Fragment de corps céleste qui tombe sur la Terre ou sur un astre quelconque. ⇒ aérolithe. Bombardement de météorites. « Un jour, elle m apporte une pierre couleur de fer, lisse et lourde. C… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Meteorite — Me te*or*ite, n. [Cf. F. m[ e]t[ e]orite.] (Min.) A mass of stone or iron which has fallen to the earth from space; an a[ e]rolite. [1913 Webster] Note: Meteorites usually show a pitted surface with a fused crust, caused by the heat developed in… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Meteorite — Meteorite, Meteorsteine, Mondsteine, Aerolithe, kosmische Körper, welche in Klumpen oder Staubform, zumeist unter starkem Geräusch und in erhöhter Temperatur auf die Erde niederfallen. Ihre Beschaffenheit ähnelt vielfach irdischen Gesteinen,… … Lexikon der gesamten Technik
meteorite — s.f. o m. [der. di meteora ]. (astron.) [corpo solido costituito prevalentemente da materiali a base di silicati e da leghe ferro nichel, che, provenendo dagli spazi interplanetari, raggiunge la superficie della Terra] ▶◀ ‖ bolide, meteora … Enciclopedia Italiana
meteorite — (n.) rock that falls to earth, after streaking across the sky as a meteor, 1818, from METEOR (Cf. meteor) + ITE (Cf. ite) … Etymology dictionary
meteorite — s. f. [Astronomia] O mesmo que meteorito. ‣ Etimologia: meteoro + ite … Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa
meteorite — ► NOUN ▪ a piece of rock or metal that has fallen to the earth from space … English terms dictionary
meteorite — [mēt′ē ər īt΄] n. that part of a relatively large meteoroid that survives passage through the atmosphere and falls to the surface of a planet or moon as a mass of metal or stone meteoritic [mēt′mə ərit′ik] adj … English World dictionary
Meteorite — This article is about debris from space that survives impact with the ground. For other uses of Meteor and Meteors , see Meteor (disambiguation). For popular applications, see Falling star. For the fictional superhero in the Marvel Comics… … Wikipedia
meteorite — meteoritic /mee tee euh rit ik/, meteoritical, meteorital /mee tee euh ruyt l/, adj. /mee tee euh ruyt /, n. 1. a mass of stone or metal that has reached the earth from outer space; a fallen meteoroid. 2. a meteoroid. [1815 25; METEOR + ITE1] * * … Universalium
