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Meteoric   /mˌitiˈɔrɪk/   Listen
Meteoric

adjective
1.
Of or pertaining to atmospheric phenomena, especially weather and weather conditions.  Synonyms: meteorologic, meteorological.  "Meteorological chart" , "Meteoric (or meteorological) phenomena"
2.
Pertaining to or consisting of meteors or meteoroids.  "Meteoric impacts"
3.
Like a meteor in speed or brilliance or transience.





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"Meteoric" Quotes from Famous Books



... have had similar meteoric rises in value. The first edition of Walton and Cotton's 'Compleat Angler' was published in 1653 at one and sixpence. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the average price for a fine copy seems ...
— The Book-Hunter at Home • P. B. M. Allan
... A meteoric stone may seem to differ from a planet only in size, but the difference in size involves also many other differences, notably the fact that the larger body can attract and hold to itself an atmosphere—a circumstance of the utmost importance to the existence of ...
— Life and Matter - A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' • Oliver Lodge
... baffle our telescopic investigations. A suggestion in the case is furnished, however, by the fact that the columns of the Sun are not lighted up with advertisements from any of the establishments against which it has been discharging its meteoric sneezes. And this may account for the dearth of the milk of journalistic courtesy in the cocoa-nut of the DAN PHOEBUS who ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 • Various
... boats are sometimes towed off by a wounded whale. Every effort had been made to so adjust the electric charge upon the ships that they would be repelled from the cometic mass, but, owing apparently to electric changes affecting the clashing mass of meteoric bodies which constituted the head of the comet, we found it impossible to escape from ...
— Edison's Conquest of Mars • Garrett Putnam Serviss
... payments on the sale of the Field land, and when Eugene and his brother-in-law-to-be reached Naples their soulful appeals for more currency with which to continue their golden girdle of the earth were met with the chilling notice "No funds available." Happily, in their meteoric transit across Europe, they had invested in many articles of vertu and convertible souvenirs of the places they had visited. By the sale, or sometimes by the pledge, of these accumulated impedimenta of travel, Eugene ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson


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