Noun: meteorite
| Singular | meteorite |
| Plural | meteorites |
Sample Sentences
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The Vestan, Lunar, and Martian meteorites are achondrites. [2011, Dieter Rehder, Chemistry in Space:]
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Approximately 1.25 miles of Virginia Highway 58 was rerouted to merge with US Highway 25E south of the gap. This photograph shows the phenomenon of the “fogfall,” when fog trapped in the meteorite crater of Middlesboro escapes […] [2014, Martha Evans Wiley, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, page 117:]
Nouns inflected like meteorite
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English meteor
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
4. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
5. Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
6. Latin -ītēslbor.
7. French -iteder.
8. English -ite
9. English meteorite
10. From meteor + -ite.
Verbs referencing "meteorite"
Finnish Nouns
meteoriitti, Polish Nouns
meteoryt.