asteroid belt
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The main asteroid belt, the region of the orbital plane of the Solar System located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter which is occupied by numerous minor planets (asteroids) and the dwarf planet Ceres.
noun
A set of orbits in a region that contains asteroids or similar minor planets arrayed as an annulus around the planetary system's orbital center.
name
Alternative letter-case form of asteroid belt.
Example Sentences
- "The Asteroid Belt was formed from silicate and metal-rich, but ice-poor material."
- "Believe it or not, Belter slang — or, more officially, Belter Creole — isn't a completely made-up way of communicating. It's actually a mix of several Earth languages spoken by the original settlers in the Asteroid Belt colonies — very appropriate, as the Belt is a melting pot of several different races, customs and backgrounds."
Inflected Forms
the asteroid belt (canonical)
asteroid belts (plural)