meteor swarm

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   a group of meteoroids with similar paths

   Broadermeteoroid

Questions about meteor swarm

What does meteor swarm mean?

meteor swarm means "a group of meteoroids with similar paths".

Is meteor swarm a common word?

meteor swarm 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.