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meteoriticist

noun

Etymology

From meteoritic + -ist.

  1. derived from μετέωρον
  2. derived from meteorum
  3. derived from météore
  4. formed as meteorite — “meteor + -ite”
  5. suffixed as meteoritic — “meteorite + ic”
  6. suffixed as meteoriticist — “meteoritic + ist”

Definitions

  1. A scientist involved in meteoritics.

    • The following is a not-too-imaginary conversation between a meteoriticist and an important on-the-spot witness to a fireball that went soaring over his alfalfa patch.
    • Most of the meteoriticists who "discover" new meteorites depend on someone from the general public to bring in a strange rock they have encountered.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA