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Definition of Meteor shower

1. Noun. A transient shower of meteors when a meteor swarm enters the earth's atmosphere.

Definition of Meteor shower

1. Noun. (astronomy) A phenomenon occurring when many meteors are seen on Earth during a short period of time. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meteor Shower

Literary usage of Meteor shower

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly (1872)
"B. Orbit of the November Meteor-Shower. the course of the comet's revolution, and the comet, being more and more elongated, will at last be either partially ..."

2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1879)
"... is more abundantly illustrated by many examples occurring in Mr. Denning's extensive Catalogue of his Italian meteor shower reductions (which contains ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1872)
"The April meteor-shower was also sufficiently bright in the year 1863 to make its approach to an epoch of maximum brilliancy in about that year a somewhat ..."

4. The Observatory by Royal Astronomical Society (Gran Bretaña), Royal Greenwich Observatory, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, Royal astronomical society GB (1899)
"... the Lyrid Meteor-Shower. A PERIOD of less than six months (beginning in the middle of July) includes the epochs of six out of the seven principal ..."

5. Spectrum Analysis in Its Application to Terrestrial Substances, and the by Heinrich Schellen (1872)
"Orbit of the November Meteor-Shower. object may appear to us at one time as a comet and at another as a shower of meteors, but he proves also by a ..."

6. Life of Alexander Von Humboldt: Compiled in Commemoration of the Centenary by Julius Löwenberg, Robert Avé-Lallemant, Alfred Wilhelm Dove (1873)
"... First Earthquake and meteor shower—Visit to Caracas and Puerto Cabello. Os the morning of June 5, 1799, the ' Pizarro ' weighed anchor in the harbour of ..."

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