Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

late heavy bombardment

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English

Syllables: late heavy bom-bard-ment
IPA

38

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

3

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A prolonged event believed to have occurred around the Hadean-Archean boundary, during which an unusually high number of asteroids hit the terrestrial planets and their moons.

Inflected Forms

LHB (alternative)

Questions

What does late heavy bombardment mean?: A prolonged event believed to have occurred around the Hadean-Archean boundary, during which an unusually high number of asteroids hit the terrestrial planets and their moons.

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