Plural of comet

Forms of comet

Comets in a sentence

• Astronomers have compared comets to dirty snowballs.From the entry compare
• Some comets are thought to have an extrasolar origin.From the entry extrasolar
• Depending on their orbital period, comets are classified as short or long period comets.2014, Panos Photinos, Visual Astronomy: A Guide to Understanding the Night Sky, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, →ISBN. From the entry short-period comet
• Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, like all comets, is a frozen chunk of leftover material from the birth of the solar system.2024 October 8, Katrina Miller, “How to See the ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Comet Flaring in Our Night Skies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
• The evidence we have for the KT impactor is more suggestive of asteroids than comets, but it’s not conclusive.2021 February 15, Becky Ferreira, quoting William F. Bottke, “Where Did the Dinosaur-Killing Impactor Come From?”, in The New York Times…. From the entry kt

Meaning of comet

1. noun A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically brings it close enough to the Sun that the ice vaporises to form an atmosphere, or coma, which may be blown by the solar wind to produce a visible tail.
2. noun A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body.
3. noun Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.

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Questions about the plural of comet

What is the plural of comet?

The plural of comet is comets.

Is comet countable?

Comet is a countable noun.