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potentially hazardous object

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English

Syllables
po-ten-tial-ly -haz-ardous ob-ject
IPA
55
Scrabble Score
26
Letters
7
Syllables
18
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A near-Earth asteroid or comet with an orbit such that it has the potential to make close approaches to the Earth and is of a size large enough to cause significant regional damage in the event of impact.

Inflected Forms

potentially hazardous objects (plural) PHO (alternative, initialism)

Frequently Paired Words

near-Earth asteroid near-Earth comet

Questions

What does potentially hazardous object mean?
A near-Earth asteroid or comet with an orbit such that it has the potential to make close approaches to the Earth and is of a size large enough to cause significant regional damage in the event of impact.

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