HOW TO PRONOUNCE
asteroid
/ˈæstɚˌɔɪd/
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Keep the primary stress on “as.”
Use three syllables with a light r-colored middle vowel. The final oid contains the vowel of boy and a closing d, with less stress than the opening beat.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“The telescope tracked an asteroid.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does asteroid mean?
noun
- A naturally occurring solid object, which is smaller than a planet and a dwarf planet, larger than a meteoroid and not a comet, that orbits a star and often has an irregular shape.
- In the Solar System, such a body that orbits within the orbit of Jupiter.
- Any member of the taxonomic class Asteroidea; a starfish.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈæstɚˌɔɪd/
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Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
“I know, I guess, what this pretended meteor is! It is no asteroid which is accompanying us! It is not a piece of a planet.”
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The lonely Earth amid the balls That hurry through the eternal halls, A makeweight flying to the void, Supplemental asteroid, Or compensatory spark, Shoots across the neutral Dark.
Certainly the man who was the first to think of crushing wheat, kneading flour and cooking the paste between two hot stones was more deserving than the discoverer of the two-hundredth asteroid.
If the asteroids should combine to form one planet the orbit of this planet should be much less eccentric than the average of all the present asteroid eccentricities, and the deviation of its orbit plane should be less than the average deviation of the present planes.