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meteorite n.陨石；流星 (1) 他发现了一块奇异的陨石。(2) 附近有颗流星刚掉下来 If you've ever seen a shooting star at night, you can call what you're watching zip brightly across the sky a meteor. If that same meteor makes it through the atmosphere of the earth, its fire burns out and it becomes a meteorite, or a random piece of space debris that may have originally come from an asteroid or comet. The Greek root for both meteor and meteorite is ta meteora, "things in heaven above."

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英 ['miːtiəraɪt] 美 ['miːtiəraɪt] (1) He discovered an unusual meteorite.(2) There's a meteorite that hit the ground near here. A meteorite is a rock that falls to earth after a brilliant meteor has passed through the earth's atmosphere. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]陨石；陨星；陨铁 A meteorite is a large piece of rock or metal from space that has landed on Earth.

英语单词	meteorite
英美音标	英 ['miːtiəraɪt] 美 ['miːtiəraɪt]
中文释义	n.陨石；流星
英语例句	(1) He discovered an unusual meteorite. (2) There's a meteorite that hit the ground near here.
中文例句	(1) 他发现了一块奇异的陨石。 (2) 附近有颗流星刚掉下来
vocabulary简明	A meteorite is a rock that falls to earth after a brilliant meteor has passed through the earth's atmosphere.
vocabulary扩展	If you've ever seen a shooting star at night, you can call what you're watching zip brightly across the sky a meteor. If that same meteor makes it through the atmosphere of the earth, its fire burns out and it becomes a meteorite, or a random piece of space debris that may have originally come from an asteroid or comet. The Greek root for both meteor and meteorite is ta meteora, "things in heaven above."
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]陨石；陨星；陨铁 A meteorite is a large piece of rock or metal from space that has landed on Earth.

Meteorite Meteor Rock Piece Space 英 Miːtiəraɪt] 美 Miːtiəraɪt