Synonyms for meteor
ˈmi ti ər, -ˌɔrme·te·or

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1. meteoroid, meteornoun

   (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere

   Synonyms:
   shooting star, meteoroid

2. meteor, shooting starnoun

   a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode

   Synonyms:
   shooting star, meteoroid

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Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. meteornoun

   Synonyms:
   fireball, shooting star, bolis, bolide

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1. List of paraphrases for "meteor":

   meteorite, asteroid

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. METEOR

   Synonyms:
   Measuring Effects on intima media Thickness: an Evaluation Of Rosuvastatin Ongoing trial

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1. Mike Hankey:

   Bright moon phases are bad for meteor showers as they wash out the dimmer meteors, a full or almost full moon dominates one part of the sky, making that part undesirable for observing meteors. The full moon also lasts the entire night, leaving no hours of complete darkness, which is preferred.

2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

   Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

3. Steinar Midtskogen:

   A minute later or more a loud rumbling sound could be heard over a large area, perhaps up to 100 km( about 62 miles) away from where the meteor was seen straight overhead.

4. Maria Valdes:

   A lot of rocks can seem like they’re meteorites, but they’re not, we call these meteor-wrongs.

5. Robert Lunsford:

   The radiant is expected to be a large area of the sky and not a pinpoint. So any slow meteor from this general area of the sky can be expected to be from SW3, you need not look directly overhead as meteors may appear in any portion of the sky. They are actually more likely to appear at lower elevations in the sky since at these elevations one is looking through a far thicker slice of the atmosphere that when looking straight upwards.