Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A stony meteorite that contains no chondrules.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A meteoric stone, or aërolite, containing little or no iron and essentially free from chondrules. See meteorite.
Wiktionary
- n. Any stony meteorite that contains no chondrules
- n. Any stony meteorite that contains no chondrules
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a stony meteor lacking chondrules.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a stony meteor lacking chondrules
Examples
“In her journal that day, she noted that, “we found an unusual achondrite.””
“Field image of the achondrite meteorite GRA 06128, found in blue ice of the Graves Nunatak region of the Antarctica during the ANSMET 2006 / 2007 field-season.”
“It is an achondrite - a basalt - with a composition that suggest an asteroid from the inner asteroid belt. ”
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