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n. A bowl-shaped depression at the mouth of a volcano or geyser.

n. A bowl-shaped depression in a surface made by an explosion or the impact of a body, such as a meteoroid.

n. A pit; a hollow.

n. Variant of krater.

v. To make craters in: "The missiles did not . . . crater the airfield” ( Tom Clancy).

verb-intransitive. To form a crater or craters.

verb-intransitive. Slang To fall and crash violently from a great height.

verb-intransitive. Slang To fail utterly: "talked about how tough times were in Texas since the oil business cratered” ( Stephen Coonts).

n. A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object.

n. The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.

n. The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb.

n. Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.

v. To collapse catastrophically; implode; hollow out; to become devastated or completely destroyed.

v. To crash or fall.

n. A term of endearment, a dote, a wretched thing.

n. The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.

n. The pit left by the explosion of a bomb, shell, or mine.

n. A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup.

n. pl. crateres (krā˙-tē′ rēz). In classical antiquity, a large vessel or vase in which water was mixed with wine according to accepted formulas, and from which it was dipped out and served to the guests in the smaller pouring-vessels (oinochoe).

n. In geology, the cup-shaped depression or cavity of a volcano, forming the orifice through which the erupted material finds its way to the surface, or has done so in former times if the volcano is at present extinct or dormant.

n. Milit., a cavity formed by the explosion of a military mine.

n. Any hollow made in the earth by subterranean forces.

n. [capitalized] An ancient southern constellation south of Leo and Virgo. It is supposed to represent a vase with two handles and a base.

n. In electricity, a hollow cavity formed in the positive carbon of an arclamp when continuous currents are used.

n. A caldera.

n. a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Corvus

n. a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano

n. a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb

"The crater from the Ranger impact is not well defined in the existing film database, especially as it appears at the boundary between two framelets."

cratered    cratering    craters   

constellation   

bell crater    crater of an are    crater basin    explosion crater   

cup   

bowl    mouth    astrobleme    caldera   

Creator    Decatur    Equator    Lemaitre    Mercator    Pater    Slater    amphitheater    amphitheatre    cater   

volcano    canyon    chasm    pit    mound    boulder    cave    cone    ridge    valley