What does meteoric mean?
Definitions for meteoric
ˌmi tiˈɔr ɪk, -ˈɒr-me·te·oric
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Princeton's WordNet
meteorologic, meteorological, meteoricadjective
of or pertaining to atmospheric phenomena, especially weather and weather conditions
"meteorological factors"; "meteorological chart"; "meteoric (or meteorological) phenomena"
meteoricadjective
pertaining to or consisting of meteors or meteoroids
"meteoric shower"; "meteoric impacts"
meteoricadjective
like a meteor in speed or brilliance or transience
"a meteoric rise to fame"
Wiktionary
meteoricadjective
Of, pertaining to, or originating from a meteor.
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
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.
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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
Meteoricadjective
of or pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric, as, meteoric phenomena; meteoric stones
Meteoricadjective
influenced by the weather; as, meteoric conditions
Meteoricadjective
flashing; brilliant; transient; like a meteor; as, meteoric fame
Etymology: [Cf. F. mtorique.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of meteoric in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of meteoric in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of meteoric in a Sentence
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.
I would hope that as a community we are learning to ask more questions about meteoric financial rises, yet I'm uncertain if anything has really changed (after Rothstein)," said Kendall Coffey, a former U.S. attorney who represented Rothstein's law firm after the Ponzi scheme was uncovered.
The cast and crew of Breaking Bad changed American television and have had an unmistakable role in our city's meteoric rise in the film industry, in Albuquerque, they've been our friends and neighbors for the past decade and a half, and we'll always be grateful to this team.
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.
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.
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