Me"te*or*oid (?), n. [Meteor + -oid.] Astron.

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.

 

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