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流星,大气现象
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Meteor \Me"te*or\, n. [F. m['e]t['e]ore, Gr. ?, pl. ? things in
the air, fr. ? high in air, raised off the ground; ? beyond +
?, ?, a suspension or hovering in the air, fr. ? to lift,
raise up.]
1. Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds,
rain, hail, snow, etc.
Hail, an ordinary meteor. --Bp. Hall.
2. Specif.: A transient luminous body or appearance seen in
the atmosphere, or in a more elevated region.
The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with
burning meteors. --Shak.
Note: The term is especially applied to fireballs, and the
masses of stone or other substances which sometimes
fall to the earth; also to shooting stars and to ignes
fatui. Meteors are often classed as: aerial meteors,
winds, tornadoes, etc.; aqueous meteors, rain, hail,
snow, dew, etc.; luminous meteors, rainbows, halos,
etc.; and igneous meteors, lightning, shooting stars,
and the like.
资料来源 : WordNet®
meteor
n 1: 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 explode
[syn: {shooting star}]
2: (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies
that hits the earth's atmosphere [syn: {meteoroid}]
资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
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.