meteorite
1Meteorite — Météorite Pour les articles homonymes, voir Météorite (homonymie). Météorite de Willamette. Une météorite est un corps matériel extraterrestre …
2météorite — [ 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… …
3Meteorite — 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… …
4Meteorite — 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,… …
5meteorite — 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 …
6meteorite — (n.) rock that falls to earth, after streaking across the sky as a meteor, 1818, from METEOR (Cf. meteor) + ITE (Cf. ite) …
7meteorite — s. f. [Astronomia] O mesmo que meteorito. ‣ Etimologia: meteoro + ite …
8meteorite — ► NOUN ▪ a piece of rock or metal that has fallen to the earth from space …
9meteorite — [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 …
10Meteorite — 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… …
