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antiasteroid

antiasteroid adjective: protecting against asteroids.

Adjective

antiasteroid (not comparable)

  1. Protecting against asteroids.
    • The juvenile missives from his unmistakably phallic Twitter avatar came days after one of his rockets launched NASA’s first antiasteroid planetary-defense test; a few weeks before another launched a first-of-its-kind mission to study cosmic X-rays; and amid Musk’s sale of 10% of his Tesla stock, a...2021 December 13, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021

Origin of antiasteroid

From anti- + asteroid.

Questions about antiasteroid

What does antiasteroid mean?
Antiasteroid means protecting against asteroids.
What part of speech is antiasteroid?
Antiasteroid is an adjective.

Words near antiasteroid in the dictionary

  1. antiascetics
  2. antiassignment
  3. antiassimilation
  4. antiassimilationist
  5. antiassociation
  6. antiasteroid
  7. antiasthenic
  8. antiasthma
  9. antiasthmatic
  10. antiasthmatics
  11. antiastrology

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