METEOR SHOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meteor shower mean? 

• METEOR SHOWER (noun)
  The noun METEOR SHOWER has 1 sense:

1. a transient shower of meteors when a meteor swarm enters the earth's atmosphere

  Familiarity information: METEOR SHOWER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• METEOR SHOWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A transient shower of meteors when a meteor swarm enters the earth's atmosphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

meteor shower; meteor stream

Hypernyms ("meteor shower" is a kind of...):

atmospheric phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere)

Meronyms (parts of "meteor shower"):

meteor; shooting star (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)

 Context examples 

It is thought that the fragments may have been part of a meteor shower, as at least 10 of the 70 samples collected belong to the same type of meteorite.

(Huge Haul of Extraterrestrial Material Recovered from Iranian Desert, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The meteor shower, which occurs each year in July or August, will see hundreds of meteors pass through the sky in an event that will be visible around the world.

(Perseid Meteor Shower Provides Opening Act for Solar Eclipse, VOA News)

The remote-sensing Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph observed intense ultraviolet emission from magnesium and iron ions high in the atmosphere in the aftermath of the meteor shower.

(Mars Spacecraft Reveal Comet Flyby Effects on Martian Atmosphere, NASA)

Dust from the comet impacted Mars and was vaporized high in the atmosphere, producing what was likely an impressive meteor shower.

(Mars Spacecraft Reveal Comet Flyby Effects on Martian Atmosphere, NASA)

The Perseid meteor shower peaks every year about this time as the Earth passes debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet, but this year the annual shower will come about a week before a total solar eclipse.

(Perseid Meteor Shower Provides Opening Act for Solar Eclipse, VOA News)

In these observations, scientists were able to make a direct connection from the input of debris from a specific meteor shower to the formation of this kind of transient layer in response; that is a first on any planet, including Earth.

(Mars Spacecraft Reveal Comet Flyby Effects on Martian Atmosphere, NASA)