EXTRATERRESTRIAL OBJECT
Dictionary entry overview: What does extraterrestrial object mean?
• EXTRATERRESTRIAL OBJECT (noun)
The noun EXTRATERRESTRIAL OBJECT has 1 sense:
1. a natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere
Familiarity information: EXTRATERRESTRIAL OBJECT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EXTRATERRESTRIAL OBJECT (noun)
Meaning:
A natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
estraterrestrial body; extraterrestrial object
Hypernyms ("extraterrestrial object" is a kind of...):
natural object (an object occurring naturally; not made by man)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "extraterrestrial object"):
comet ((astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit)
meteor; meteoroid ((astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere)
Holonyms ("extraterrestrial object" is a part of...):
cosmos; creation; existence; macrocosm; universe; world (everything that exists anywhere)
