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meteor shower in British English
noun
a transient rain of meteors, such as the Perseids, occurring at regular intervals and coming from a particular region in the sky. It is caused by the earth passing through a large number of meteoroids (a meteor swarm)
meteor shower in American English
the effect produced by a group of meteoroids, probably the debris left by the passage of a comet, coming from the same area in the sky
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