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A small natural solid object traveling through space, smaller than the bodies normally called asteroids.
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- meteoroid stream
- meteoroid impact
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A meteoroid punctured the outer layer of the shield.
The habitat closed its shutters during the predicted meteoroid stream.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular: meteoroid; plural: meteoroids. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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