Usually means: Space rock entering Earth's atmosphere.
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  1. meteor: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. meteor, meteor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. meteor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. meteor, meteor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. meteor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Meteor, meteor: Wordnik
  7. meteor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. meteor: Wiktionary
  9. meteor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. meteor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. meteor: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. meteor, meteor: Dictionary.com
  13. meteor: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. meteor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. METEOR, METeOR, Meteor (Pink Lady song), Meteor (TV miniseries), Meteor (automobile), Meteor (car), Meteor (disambiguation), Meteor (film), Meteor (horse), Meteor (juggling), Meteor (miniseries), Meteor (missile), Meteor (mobile network), Meteor (platform), Meteor (rocket), Meteor (satellite), Meteor (web framework), Meteor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Meteor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. meteor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. meteor: Rhymezone
  19. Meteor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. meteor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. meteor: Free Dictionary
  22. meteor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. meteor: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meteor-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meteor: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. METEOR: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. meteor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. METEOR: Acronym Finder
  3. meteor: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Meteor: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Meteor: Glossary on Meteor Astronomy
  3. Meteor: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. meteor: Nine Planets Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Meteor: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See meteors as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (now meteorology) An atmospheric or meteorological phenomenon. These were sometimes classified as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (hydrometeors: clouds, rain, snow, hail, dew, frost), luminous meteors (rainbows and aurora), and igneous or fiery meteors (lightning and shooting stars).
noun:  A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or falling star.
noun:  (juggling) A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.
noun:  (martial arts) A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain.
noun:  (figurative) Any short-lived source of wonderment.
verb:  (intransitive) To move at great speed.

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