preterrestrialとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

preterrestrial (not comparable)

1. Prior to the formation of Earth
   • 1980 Eugenio Donato, “The Museum's Furnace”, in Textual Strategies^[1], ISBN 0416737501, page 235:

     The System of the World of Laplace is the history of a preterrestrial era, the history of the world before the formation of the planet Earth, or if one prefers, of the Earth in its unity with the Sun.

2. (geology) Occurring prior to a meteorite's impact with Earth
   • 2003 American Geological Institute, Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms^[2], ISBN 3540012710, page 333:

     A plagioclase glass in some chondrites and irons formed by preterrestrial impact between meteorites in space.

派生語

• preterrestrially

関連する語

• postterrestrial