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- noun Plural form of
craterlet .
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Examples
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The ground was fissured at some places in the city to a depth of many feet, and numerous "craterlets" were formed, from which sand was ejected in considerable quantities.
The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Charles Morris 1877
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The craterlets might be sentry posts on this lowest embankment of the City's defenses ....
The Clique 2010
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I take it reader has seen pictures or photographs of the moon and that I need not describe the broader features of that landscape, those spacious ringlike ranges vaster than any terrestrial mountains, their summits shining in the day, their shadows harsh and deep, the gray disordered plains, the ridges, hills, and craterlets, all passing at last from a blazing illumination into a common mystery of black.
First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006
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A few minor craterlets scattered around the area, and the ubiquitous rocks strewn across the ground.
Moonwar Bova, Ben, 1932- 1997
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There were enough craterlets and rocks strewn across the ground to cause trouble if he got careless, he knew.
Moonwar Bova, Ben, 1932- 1997
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Steering the tractor was fairly easy; it was built to clamber over rocks and across craterlets, like a tank.
Moonwar Bova, Ben, 1932- 1997
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Its surface was so pocked with craterlets and covered in crags arid gullies and cracks that it was hard to study anyone feature on the surface before it got lost among all the others.
Roger MacBride Allen, Roger MacBride 1996
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Then he frowned, turning the tiny craterlets on his face linear.
The Metrognome and other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990
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Then he frowned, turning the tiny craterlets on his face linear.
The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990
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When the light had died, Hap stood within a ring of craterlets.
The Magic May Return Niven, Larry 1981
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