| n. | 1. | |
| 1. | Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc. | |
| 2. | Specif.: A transient luminous body or appearance seen in the atmosphere, or in a more elevated region. | |
| 3. | A mass of stone or other substance which sometimes falls to the earth from space beyond the moon, burning up from atomospheric friction and creating a brilliant but usually very brief trail of light in the atmosphere; also called a |
| Noun | 1. | meteor - a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explodeSynonyms: shooting star |
| 2. | meteor - (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere Synonyms: meteoroid |
| METEOR - A version of COMIT with Lisp-like syntax, written in MIT Lisp 1.5 for the IBM 7090. "METEOR - A List Interpreter for String Transformation", D.G. Bobrow in The Programming Language LISP and its Interpretation, E.D. and D.G. Bobrow eds, 1964. |
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