visible radiation vs meteor

meteor vs visible radiation

visible radiation and meteor both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
visible radiation	Yes	No	No	No
meteor	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, meteor is a hyponym of visible radiation; that is, meteor is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than visible radiation:

visible radiation: (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
meteor: a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode

Other hyponyms of visible radiation include beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, candle flame, candlelight, corona, counterglow, gegenschein, daylight, firelight, fluorescence, friar's lantern, ignis fatuus, jack-o'-lantern, will-o'-the-wisp, gaslight, glow, glowing, radiance, glow, half-light, glow, incandescence, lamplight, luminescence, shooting star, Moon, moonlight, moonshine, starlight, sun, sunlight, sunshine, scintillation, streamer, torchlight, twilight.

visible radiation (noun)	meteor (noun)
(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation	(astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
	a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode

Difference between visible radiation and meteor

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