bolide
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French bolide, from Latin bolis, from Ancient Greek βολίς (bolís, “missile, arrow, javelin”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈboʊ.laɪd/, /ˈboʊ.lɪd/
Noun
bolide (plural bolides)
- An extremely bright meteor.
- Any extraterrestrial body that collides with Earth.
- Alan Harris
- The smallest impactor that can penetrate the atmosphere deep enough to cause any damage on the ground is not much smaller than the "Tunguska" bolide that flattened a couple thousand square miles of Siberian forest in 1908.
- Alan Harris
- A fireball.
Derived terms
Translations
extremely bright meteor
any extraterrestrial body that collides with earth
fireball
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French
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -id
Further reading
- “bolide” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
From Latin bolis, from Ancient Greek βολίς (bolís, “missile, arrow, javelin”).
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