main belt
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Synonym of asteroid belt; the main asteroid belt in the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter.
noun
The primary belt of armor protecting the sides of a warship above and slightly below the waterline.
name
Alternative letter-case form of main belt.
Example Sentences
- "Dr. Witt suspected a highly eccentric orbit, enabling this asteroid to travel outside the main belt. He found that the majority of the asteroid's orbit was within that of Mars and named it Eros."
- "Such collisions may be the mechanism that sends fragments across the asteroid belt toward Earth and the terrestrial planets. If they survive passage through the main belt they may eventually establish elliptical orbits among the inner planets."
Inflected Forms
the main belt (canonical)
main belts (plural)