meteorite

meteorite

See also: Meteorite and météorite

English

A cast of a meteorite

Etymology

meteor +‎ -ite

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.tɪ.ə.ɹaɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ti.əˌɹaɪt/, /-ɾi-/

• Audio (GA)

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• Hyphenation: me‧te‧or‧ite

Noun

meteorite (plural meteorites)

1. A metallic or stony object or body that is the remains of a meteoroid.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:meteorite

Derived terms

• meteoritic
• meteoriticist
• meteoritics
• meteorwrong
• micrometeorite

 

Related terms

• meteor
• meteoroid
• meteorology

 

Translations

remains of a meteor

Albanian: meteorit (sq) m Arabic: حَجَر نَيْزَكِيّ‎ m (ḥajar nayzakiyy) Armenian: երկնաքար (hy) (erknakʿar) Asturian: meteoritu m Azerbaijani: meteorit Basque: meteorito Belarusian: метэары́т (be) m (mjetearýt) Bengali: উল্কাপিণ্ড (ulkapiṇḍô) Bulgarian: метеори́т m (meteorít) Burmese: ဥက္ကာခဲ (my) (ukkahkai:) Catalan: meteorit (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 隕石／陨石 (zh) (yǔnshí) Czech: meteorit (cs) m Danish: meteorit (da) c Dutch: meteoriet (nl) m Esperanto: meteorito, aerolito, meteorŝtono, aerŝtono Estonian: meteoriit (et) Finnish: meteoriitti (fi) French: météorite (fr) f Galician: meteorito (gl) m Georgian: მეტეორიტი (meṭeoriṭi) German: Meteorit (de) m Greek: μετεωρίτης (el) m (meteorítis) Hebrew: מֶטֶאוֹרִיט‎ (he) m (meteorit), כּוֹכָב נוֹפֵל‎ Hindi: उल्कापिंड m (ulkāpiṇḍ) Hungarian: meteorit (hu) Icelandic: loftsteinn (is) m Italian: meteorite (it) f Japanese: 隕石 (ja) (いんせき, inseki) Kazakh: метеорит (meteorit) Khmer: ឧក្កាបាត (km) (’ukkaabaat), អាចម៍ផ្កាយ (ʼac phkaay) Korean: 운석(隕石) (ko) (unseok) Kyrgyz: метеорит (meteorit) Lao: ອຸກກາບາດ (lo) (ʼuk kā bāt) Latvian: meteorīts m Lithuanian: meteoritas m Macedonian: метеорит m (meteorit) Malay: meteorit Maltese: meteorit m Maori: matakōkiri, whatu kōkiri Mongolian: газарт унасан солир (gazart unasan solir), солирын чулуулаг (soliryn čuluulag) Nahuatl: cītlalmītl (nah) Norwegian: meteoritt m Occitan: meteorit (oc) m Persian: شهاب‌سنگ‎ (šahâb-sang) Polish: meteoryt (pl) m Portuguese: meteorito (pt) m Punjabi: ਉਲਕਾ ਪਿੰਡ (ulakā piṇḍ) Quechua: pachakawri rumi Romanian: meteorit (ro) m Russian: метеори́т (ru) m (meteorít) Scottish Gaelic: dreagag f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: метеорит m Roman: meteorit (sh) m Slovak: meteorit m Slovene: meteorit (sl) m Spanish: meteorito (es) m Swedish: meteorit (sv) c Tagalog: bulalato, meteorita Tajik: шиҳобпора (šihobpora), метеорит (meteorit), шиҳобсанг (šihobsang) Tamil: விண்வீழ்கல் (viṇvīḻkal) Tatar: метеорит (meteorit) Thai: อุกกาบาต (th) (ùk-gaa-bàat) Turkish: göktaşı (tr), meteorit (tr) Turkmen: meteorit Ukrainian: метеори́т m (meteorýt) Urdu: شہابی پتھر‎ m (śihābī patthar) Uyghur: مېتېئورىت‎ (mëtë'orit) Uzbek: meteorit (uz) Vietnamese: thiên thạch (vi), vẫn thạch (vi)

See also

• achondrite
• aerolite
• angrite
• asteroid
• aubrite
• chassignite
• chondrite
• fireball
• nakhlite
• shergottite
• ureilite

Further reading

• meteorite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.te.oˈri.te/
• Rhymes: -ite
• Hyphenation: me‧te‧o‧rì‧te

Noun

meteorite m or f (plural meteoriti)

1. meteorite

Derived terms

• micrometeorite

Anagrams

• ietteremo, ometterei