单词 | meteorite |
释义 | meteoriteme‧te‧o‧rite /ˈmiːtiəraɪt/ noun [countable] ![]() ![]() EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS word sets
WORD SETS► Astronomy Collocationsasteroid, nounastro-, prefixastronaut, nounastronomical, adjectiveastronomy, nounastrophysics, nounAU, aurora borealis, nounBig Bang, the, nounblack hole, nouncelestial, adjectivecomet, nounconstellation, nouncorona, nouncosmic, adjectivecosmic ray, nouncosmology, nouncosmonaut, noundead, adjectiveearth, nouneclipse, nouneclipse, verbecliptic, nounequinox, nounescape velocity, nounextraterrestrial, adjectivegalactic, adjectivegalaxy, noungeostationary orbit, nounHubble Space Telescope, the, infinity, nounintergalactic, adjectiveinterplanetary, adjectiveinterstellar, adjectiveJupiter, nounlaunch, verblaunch, nounlight year, nounLittle Bear, lunar, adjectivelunar month, nounmagnitude, nounMars, nounMercury, nounmeteor, nounmeteoric, adjectivemeteorite, nounMilky Way, the, month, nounmoon, nounmorning star, nounNASA, nounnebula, nounNeptune, nounnew moon, nounnova, nounobservatory, nounorbit, verborbit, nounorbiter, nounouter space, nounphase, nounplanet, nounplanetarium, nounplasma, nounPluto, nounquadrant, nounquarter, nounquasar, nounradio telescope, nounring, nounrocket, nounsatellite, nounSaturn, nounsea, nounshooting star, nounsolar, adjectivesolar system, nounspace, nounspace capsule, nounspacecraft, nounspace probe, nounspaceship, nounspace shuttle, nounspace station, nounstar, nounstargazer, nounsteady state theory, nounstellar, adjectivesun, nounsunspot, nounsupernova, nountelescope, nountelescopic, adjectiveterrestrial, adjectiveUranus, nounVenus, nounwane, verbwax, verbwhite dwarf, nounworld, nounzenith, noun COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► stony a piece of rock or metal from space that has landed on Earth· She had analysed four of the specimens and found that each belonged to a completely different class of stony meteorite!· Most stony meteorites range from about 1, 500 atmospheres down to about 100 atmospheres in crushing strength.· Aeroliths, or stony meteorites, are composed chiefly of silicates.· Hard stony meteorites span the entire spectrum of strengths between these extremes, and they will be selected accordingly.· In addition, new data strengthen the idea that a group of nine unusual stony meteorites may have come from Mars.· Impactite glasses and a small piece of a stony meteorite were found in the largest craters. NOUN► fall· It is startling but true that no meteorite fall has ever been associated with a meteor shower.· Pliny also asserted that the mathematician and astronomer Anaxagoras of Clazomenae had predicted the Aegospotami meteorite fall.· Did he in fact predict a meteorite fall?· A spectacular, widely observed meteorite fall in Newfoundland on October 19, 1936, set a fishing boat afire.· What should we conclude about the hazard from meteorite falls? VERB► find· Some of the supernova debris has recently been found in meteorites. ► know· This is the source of the fragments that we know as iron meteorites. |
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