Definition of Meteoritic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or caused by meteorites.

Exact synonyms: Meteoritical
Partainyms: Meteorite, Meteorite
Derivative terms: Meteorite, Meteorite

Definition of Meteoritic

1. Adjective. (astronomy) Of or pertaining to meteorites ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Meteoritic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meteoritic

metenkephalin
metensomatoses
metensomatosis
meteor
meteor shower
meteor showers
meteor stream
meteor swarm
meteoric
meteoric water
meteorical
meteorically
meteorism
meteorite
meteorites
meteoritic (current term)
meteoritical
meteoriticist
meteoriticists
meteoritics
meteorize
meteorized
meteorizes
meteorizing
meteorograph
meteorographic
meteorographies
meteorographs
meteorography
meteoroid

Literary usage of Meteoritic

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

1. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"Is some other form of the meteoritic hypothesis tenable?—Is it possible to postulate, on probable grounds, some other phase of meteoritic assemblage that ..."

2. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"Is some other form of the meteoritic hypothesis tenable?—Is it possible to postulate, on probable grounds, some other phase of meteoritic assemblage that ..."

3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"Is some other form of the meteoritic hypothesis tenable?—Is it possible to postulate, on probable grounds, some other phase of meteoritic assemblage that ..."

4. A College Text-book of Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1909)
"A meteoritic hypothesis of more logical character has been based on the conception that meteorites may be aggregated into swarms and constitute nebula? ..."

5. The Visible Universe: Chapters on the Origin and Construction of the Heavens by John Ellard Gore (1893)
"THE meteoritic HYPOTHESIS. 4 N elaborate and interesting volume, containing a state- ii. ment of the grounds on which he has based his meteoritic theory of ..."

6. The Study of Stellar Evolution: An Account of Some Recent Methods of by George Ellery Hale (1908)
"... CHAPTER XXI THE meteoritic AND PLANETESIMAL HYPOTHESES IN even the briefest outline of the methods of studying stellar evolution, reference must be made ..."

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