asteroid
Kelime Anlamı :

1. asteroit.
2. küçük gezegen.
3. asteroid.
4. ASTEROİD: Bak. "planetoid".
5. i., gökb. asteroit, küçük gezegen.
6. küçük gezegenler.
Tanımlar :
1. astronomy any of numerous small celestial bodies that revolve around the sun, with orbits lying chiefly between mars and jupiter and characteristic diameters between a few and several hundred kilometers. also called minor planet, planetoid.
2. zoology see starfish.
3. star-shaped.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. A naturally occurring solid object, which is smaller than a planet and is not a comet, that orbits a star
2. in the solar system, such a body that orbits within the orbit of jupiter
3. any member of the taxonomic class Asteroidea; a starfish
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of mars and jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. star-like.
2. having a flower like that of an aster.
3. one of the small planets, 280 or more in number, between the orbits of mars and jupiter: more accurately called planetoids. see planetoid.
4. one of the Asteroidea; a starfish, in a wide sense.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. shaped like a star
2. any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of mars and jupiter)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.