METEOR : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: METEOR	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for METEOR
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
meteor n (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere Synonym(s): meteoroid, 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 explode Synonym(s): meteor, shooting star
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Meteor \Me"te*or\, n. [F. m[82]t[82]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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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.