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A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth's atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor.

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  1. n. A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth's atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor.
  2. n. (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
  3. A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth's atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor. These bodies [small, solid bodies] before they come into the air, I call meteoroids. H. A. Newton.
  4. A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun,which on entering the earth's atmosphere would be deflagrated andappear as a meteor.These bodies [small, solid bodies] before they come into the air, Icall meteoroids. H. A. Newton.
  5. j:19/n:81 n. (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere