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Perseid
[ pur-see-id ]
noun
, Astronomy.
- any of a shower of meteors appearing in August and radiating from a point in the constellation Perseus.
Perseid
/ ˈpɜːsɪɪd /
noun
- any member of a meteor shower occurring annually around August 12th and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Perseus
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Perseid1
First recorded in 1870–75; Perseus ( def ) + -id 1( def ); modeled on Italian Perseidi (plural), a term coined or used by Giovanni Schiaparelli ( def )
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Perseid1
C19: from Greek Persēides daughters of Perseus 1
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Example Sentences
The Perseid meteors sometimes fall at the rate of about sixty per hour.
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For this reason, Leverrier pronounced, in 1867, the Perseid to be of older formation than the Leonid system.
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A dawdling August Perseid scratched a thin mark of light across the blackness.
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Secondly, that it was a new power which he erected, and that he was not merely the transferee of the power of the Perseid line.
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