Definition of Meteoroidal

1. a. Of or pertaining to a meteoroid or to meteoroids.

Definition of Meteoroidal

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to meteoroids. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Meteoroidal

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meteoroidal

meteoritic
meteoritical
meteoriticist
meteoriticists
meteoritics
meteorize
meteorized
meteorizes
meteorizing
meteorograph
meteorographic
meteorographies
meteorographs
meteorography
meteoroid
meteoroidal (current term)
meteoroids
meteorolite
meteorolites
meteorologic
meteorological
meteorological balloon
meteorological conditions
meteorological factors
meteorological observation post
meteorological satellite
meteorologically
meteorologies
meteorologist
meteorologists

Literary usage of Meteoroidal

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

1. World-life; Or, Comparative Geology by Alexander Winchell (1888)
"Let it be remembered, too, that of all meteoroidal orbits intersecting that of the earth, only such can be revealed as are traversed by the ..."

2. Walks and Talks in the Geological Field by Alexander Winchell (1898)
"plays have resulted from clouds of meteoroidal bodies which have been quite certainly identified with recognized comets. At certain regular intervals, ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"larger portion, four-fifths by assumption, of the matter of the earth would yet be in the meteoroidal form and doubtless more or less closely associated ..."

4. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1903)
"In the gaseous and meteoroidal hypotheses (as usually understood. ... In the meteoroidal conception of George Darwin, the conditions are practically the ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"Apparently, however, he has not adopted the gaseous earth-moon ring, but has substituted therefor a meteoroidal ancestry for the earth, for he says (p. ..."

6. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1897)
"On other grounds we cannot fail to recognize that some form of the meteoroidal hypotheses of the origin of the earth is entitled to be reckoned among the ..."

7. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"These planetesimals constitute one variety of meteoroidal bodies, ... They rather illustrate the planetesimal phase of the meteoroidal condition. ..."

8. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"These planetesimals constitute one variety of meteoroidal bodies, ... They rather illustrate the planetesimal phase of the meteoroidal condition. ..."

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