Usually means: Region containing numerous small rocky bodies.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. asteroid belt: Merriam-Webster
  2. asteroid belt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. asteroid belt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. asteroid belt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. asteroid belt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Asteroid Belt, asteroid belt: Wiktionary
  7. asteroid belt: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. asteroid belt: Dictionary.com
  9. Asteroid Belt (album), Asteroid Belt, Asteroid belt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. asteroid belt: Rhymezone
  11. asteroid belt: FreeDictionary.org
  12. asteroid belt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. asteroid belt: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. asteroid belt: Merriam-Webster

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  1. asteroid belt: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Asteroid Belt: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Asteroid Belt: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. ASTEROID BELT: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

(Note: See asteroid_belts as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Asteroid Belt)

noun:  (astronomy) The main asteroid belt, the region of the orbital plane of the Solar System located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter which is occupied by numerous minor planets (asteroids) and the dwarf planet Ceres.
noun:  (astronomy) A set of orbits in a region that contains asteroids or similar minor planets arrayed as an annulus around the planetary system's orbital center.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of asteroid belt [(astronomy) The main asteroid belt, the region of the orbital plane of the Solar System located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter which is occupied by numerous minor planets (asteroids) and the dwarf planet Ceres.]

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