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Sheriff's deputies there say they didn't see the meteor -- or a meteor, for that matter.

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  1. noun A bright trail or streak that appears in the sky when a meteoroid is heated to incandescence by friction with the earth's atmosphere. Also called falling star, meteor burst, shooting star.

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  1. Middle English metheour, atmospheric phenomenon, from Old French meteore, from Medieval Latin meteōrum, from Greek meteōron, astronomical phenomenon, from neuter of meteōros, high in the air : meta-, meta- + -āoros, lifted; akin to āeirein, to lift up; see wer-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French meteore, French météore = Spanish Portuguese meteoro = It. meteora, from New Latin meteorum, from Greek μετέωρον, a meteor (def. l), usually in plural μετέωρα, literally ‘things in the air,’ neuter of μετέωρος, lifted up, on high, in air, from μετά, beyond, + ἀείρειν, lift up, raise (later ἐώρα, another form of ἀιώρα, a being lifted up or suspended on high, hovering, anything suspended).
 

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/ˈmitəər/
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