'Meteoroid' definitions:
Definition of 'meteoroid'
From: WordNet
noun
(astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere [syn: meteoroid, meteor]
Definition of 'Meteoroid'
From: GCIDE
- Meteoroid \Me"te*or*oid\ (m[=e]"t[-e]*[~e]r*oid), n. [Meteor + -oid.] (Astron.) A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth's atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor. [1913 Webster]
- These bodies [small, solid bodies] before they come into the air, I call meteoroids. --H. A. Newton. [1913 Webster]