METEOROID


Meaning of METEOROID in English

/mee"tee euh royd'/ , n. Astron.

any of the small bodies, often remnants of comets, traveling through space: when such a body enters the earth's atmosphere it is heated to luminosity and becomes a meteor.

[ 1860-65; METEOR + -OID ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .