Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small crater.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small crater.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
crater . - noun A crater-like feature of a larger crater.
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Examples
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They took a few more paces across the crater floor, skirting a fresh-looking craterlet about the size of a beach ball's indentation.
Moonwar Bova, Ben, 1932- 1997
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The ground was no longer bare and somber, it reached in a dream of luminance and shadows, as if every stone were alive and every craterlet a well where the spirits might give you your wish.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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The ground was no longer bare and somber, it reached in a dream of luminance and shadows, as if every stone were alive and every craterlet a well where the spirits might give you your wish.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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A craterlet had opened in the lava some yards away.
Three Worlds To Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964
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A craterlet had opened in the lava some yards away.
Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964
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By the passage of the water, some part of the fissures was often enlarged into a round hole of considerable size, ending in a craterlet at the surface.
A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899
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Power up in a telescope to look for fine features such as steep slopes supporting newer impact crater Mersenius P and tiny interior craterlet chains.
Universe Today Tammy Plotner 2010
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The irony in all this is that the Viking 2 lander, which arrived in September 1976, sits just 800 km southeast of the ice-splashed craterlet shown above, and scientists now realise that a layer of water ice almost certainly lies not far beneath its footpads.
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