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US
/ˌmitiˈɔɹɪk/
]
[ UK /mˌiːtɪˈɒɹɪk/ ]
[ UK /mˌiːtɪˈɒɹɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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like a meteor in speed or brilliance or transience
a meteoric rise to fame -
pertaining to or consisting of meteors or meteoroids
meteoric shower
meteoric impacts -
of or pertaining to atmospheric phenomena, especially weather and weather conditions
meteorological factors
meteoric (or meteorological) phenomena
meteorological chart
How To Use meteoric In A Sentence
- The burial history of the sediments can be ascertained by the study of their varying thickness; and the petrography of the sediments reveals their diagenetic history and the movement of meteoric and pore waters through the basin.
- Some scientists lump ocean water with meteoric, whereas others regard it as a separate type of water in hydrothermal systems.
- Is it a challenge to stay level headed given you've had a meteoric rise in terms of your acting career?
- After a meteoric rise comes the inevitable fall.
- Her meteoric ascent began young. Times, Sunday Times
- His meteoric rise through the ranks was capped with the U.S. Senate's unanimous confirmation of his nomination as Secretary of State.
- meteoric shower
- It is clear that the meteoric growth in its membership was due to official coercion and patronage. Fascists and Conservatives
- In the 1980s, a series of Rottweiler attacks squelched that breed's popularity, after what had been a meteoric rise.
- We are not, it appears to me, more justified in applying the term telluric to the nickel and iron, the olivine and pyroxene (augite), found in meteoric stones, than in indicating the COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
