kuiper belt object

1. 1.

   any of many minor planets in the Kuiper belt outside the orbit of Neptune at the edge of the solar system

   SynonymsKBO

   Broaderminor planet

Questions about kuiper belt object

What does kuiper belt object mean?

kuiper belt object means "any of many minor planets in the Kuiper belt outside the orbit of Neptune at the edge of the solar system".

What is another word for kuiper belt object?

Close synonyms include KBO. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kuiper belt object a common word?

kuiper belt object is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.