Definition of Asteroidal

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or resembling an asteroid.

Partainyms: Asteroid
Derivative terms: Asteroid

Definition of Asteroidal

1. a. Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids.

Definition of Asteroidal

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to an asteroid ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Asteroidal

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Asteroidal

asteriskless
asterisks
asterism
asterismal
asterisms
asterixis
astern
astern of
asternal
asteroid
asteroid belt
asteroid belts
asteroid body
asteroid hyalosis
asteroidal (current term)
asteroidian
asteroidians
asteroidlike
asteroids
asterolepis
asterophyllite
asterophyllites
asteroseismic
asteroseismical
asteroseismological
asteroseismologically
asteroseismologist
asteroseismologists
asteroseismology

Literary usage of Asteroidal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... fitting it to be the abode of life. asteroidal composition of Saturn's rings and the affinity between meteors and comets, discovered by Schiaparelli. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Science: Comprising Astronomy, Chemistry, Dynamics by George Farrer Rodwell (1873)
"The intra-asteroidal planets are all small compared with the extra-asteroidal orbs ... We find all the extra-asteroidal planets provided with attendants. ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1877)
"The atmospheric limit (4) of the infra-asteroidal belt, is determined by positions of ... The atmospheric limit of the initial tendency to infra-asteroidal ..."

4. Saturn and Its System: Containing Discussions of the Motions (real and by Richard Anthony Proctor (1865)
"The two first are the least eccentric of the asteroidal orbits, ... If, however, the elements of the asteroidal orbits are correctly given by him in his ..."

5. The Student, and Intellectual Observer (1870)
"This is the more necessary because whenever the asteroidal system is illustrated in ... Some of the asteroidal orbits are indeed so largely inclined to the ..."

6. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1854)
"At the commencement of the year 1853, the whole number of asteroidal ... The 24th asteroidal planet was discovered on the evening of the 5th of April, 1853, ..."

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