Approacher

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something that approaches.

    "The monkeys’ calls warn other animals of approachers."

  2. 2
    An asteroid on a near-Earth trajectory.

    "Extensive upgrades to the Arecibo antenna will be completed this spring, providing dozens of Toutatis-quality detections per year, spacecraft-quality images of the closest approachers, and hundred-pixel images of dozens of main-belt asteroids ( 9 )."

Synonyms

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earth approacher

Example

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"The monkeys’ calls warn other animals of approachers."

Etymology

From approach + -er.

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