micrometeoroid
noun
an extremely small meteoroid.
micrometeoroids
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pluralof micrometeoroid.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The researchers suggest this was due to collision with high velocity micrometeoroids between 2 and 20 micrometers in diameter.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
"No country in the world has a surveillance system capable of tracking micrometeoroids of this size - about 1 millimetre."
From Reuters ● Feb. 21, 2023
They must be sturdy enough to bring the chance of micrometeoroids piercing the exteriors down to just one in 2,500.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 14, 2022
There are even interstellar micrometeoroids that are just passing through our Solar System from more distant cosmic neighborhoods.
From The Verge ● Jun. 20, 2022
The threat of a collision with micrometeoroids is small, but not zero.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2010
