meteorite

See also: Meteorite and météorite

English

A cast of a meteorite

Etymology

From meteor +‎ -ite.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (General American):

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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.
   • 2011, Dieter Rehder, Chemistry in Space:

     The Vestan, Lunar, and Martian meteorites are achondrites.

   • 2014, Martha Evans Wiley, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, page 117:

     Approximately 1.25 miles of Virginia Highway 58 was rerouted to merge with US Highway 25E south of the gap. This photograph shows the phenomenon of the “fogfall,” when fog trapped in the meteorite crater of Middlesboro escapes […]

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:meteorite

Derived terms

• iron meteorite
• 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) (erknakʻar)
• Asturian: meteoritu m
• Azerbaijani: meteorit
• Basque: meteorito
• Belarusian: метэары́т (be) m (mjetearýt)
• Bengali: উল্কাপিণ্ড (bn) (ulkapinḍo)
• Bulgarian: метеори́т m (meteorít)
• Burmese: ဥက္ကာခဲ (my) (ukkahkai:)
• Catalan: meteorit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 隕石 / 陨石 (zh) (yǔnshí)

• Cornish: men kowas m
• 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
• Irish: dreigít f
• 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
• Swahili: jiwe la angani
• 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)
• Zazaki: meteorit

See also

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

Further reading

• meteorite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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