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Definitions for meteoric
ˌmi tiˈɔr ɪk, -ˈɒr-me·te·oric

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. meteorologic, meteorological, meteoricadjective

    of or pertaining to atmospheric phenomena, especially weather and weather conditions

    "meteorological factors"; "meteorological chart"; "meteoric (or meteorological) phenomena"

  2. meteoricadjective

    pertaining to or consisting of meteors or meteoroids

    "meteoric shower"; "meteoric impacts"

  3. meteoricadjective

    like a meteor in speed or brilliance or transience

    "a meteoric rise to fame"

Wiktionary

  1. meteoricadjective

    Of, pertaining to, or originating from a meteor.

  2. meteoricadjective

    Like a meteor in speed, brilliance, or ephemeralness.

    Her meteoric rise to power was followed by a slow, lackluster career at the top.

Wikipedia

  1. meteoric

    A meteoroid () is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. Meteoroids are defined as objects significantly smaller than asteroids, ranging in size from grains to objects up to a meter wide. Objects smaller than this are classified as micrometeoroids or space dust. Most are fragments from comets or asteroids, whereas others are collision impact debris ejected from bodies such as the Moon or Mars.When a meteoroid, comet, or asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere at a speed typically in excess of 20 km/s (72,000 km/h; 45,000 mph), aerodynamic heating of that object produces a streak of light, both from the glowing object and the trail of glowing particles that it leaves in its wake. This phenomenon is called a meteor or "shooting star". Meteors typically become visible when they are about 100 km above sea level. A series of many meteors appearing seconds or minutes apart and appearing to originate from the same fixed point in the sky is called a meteor shower. A meteorite is the remains of a meteoroid that has survived the ablation of its surface material during its passage through the atmosphere as a meteor and has impacted the ground. An estimated 25 million meteoroids, micrometeoroids and other space debris enter Earth's atmosphere each day, which results in an estimated 15,000 tonnes of that material entering the atmosphere each year.

ChatGPT

  1. meteoric

    Meteoric is an adjective that is commonly used in two ways. 1) Referring to meteors or meteorites. 2) Describing something that is happening very quickly or is gaining success extremely fast. This term is often used to describe the rapid rise or success of a person's career, a company, or developments in a particular industry.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Meteoricadjective

    of or pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric, as, meteoric phenomena; meteoric stones

  2. Meteoricadjective

    influenced by the weather; as, meteoric conditions

  3. Meteoricadjective

    flashing; brilliant; transient; like a meteor; as, meteoric fame

  4. Etymology: [Cf. F. mtorique.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of meteoric in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of meteoric in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of meteoric in a Sentence

  1. Angela Rasmussen:

    The situation that we're seeing on the ground, and I get this from talking to a number of my colleagues who actually do the genomic surveillance, is BA.2 is kind of creeping up in terms of numbers, but it's not the meteoric rise that we saw with BA.1.

  2. Julia Barnes:

    It's been a meteoric rise in the amount of staff that we have, but our challenge is making sure that our infrastructure can support as many people as want to work.

  3. Jake Paul:

    I think he deserves it. I think it’s hilarious. I hope he takes a picture with it and posts it on Instagram. I just love to see McGregor plummet. He was a meteoric star that’s now just taking a nosedive. Before I wanted to fight him and I offered him $50 million, now my offer is $23.

  4. Iqbal Gandham:

    The underlying fundamentals of the crypto-asset world have not changed and this correction was more of a when, not if, any asset class which sees a meteoric rise in the same way as we have seen in crypto is expected to correct. The situation in China has perhaps exacerbated this, along with the increased rate of adoption of altcoins by new users, following tweets of various crypto personalities.

  5. Jeff Link:

    Today I would say it is going to be really hard to displace Elizabeth Warren, elizabeth Warren has not had a meteoric rise, Elizabeth Warren has had a slow and steady rise. Elizabeth Warren's got a big organization and they are smart and they are doing stuff all over.

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