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planetoid

[plan-i-toid]

noun

Astronomy.
  1. asteroid.



planetoid

/ ˈæɪˌɔɪ /

noun

  1. another name for asteroid

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

planetoid

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Other Word Forms

  • planetoidal adjective
  • ˌԱˈٴǾ岹 adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of planetoid1

First recorded in 1795–1805; planet + -oid
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The study calculated how large a hollow planetoid could be without collapsing in on itself, and the likelihood of a primordial black hole passing through an object on Earth.

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And those little planetoids around me are real objects; they’re not projections.

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Needless to say, this means that planetoid Farfarout's journey around the sun is very different from Earth's.

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From the bite-sized planetoids of Galaxy to the hakoniwa-inspired worlds of Odyssey, the Kyoto game maker has never settled on just one formula.

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Galaxy Lamps has a sphere that looks like a planetoid.

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