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approacher en · NOUN

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Etymology

From approach + -er.

Meanings

1. Someone or something that approaches.
   • her vigilant ear picked up approachers in the corridor 1971, Ian Wallace, The Purloined Prince, New York: McCall, act 3, page 125:
   • 1589, Paul Ive (translator), Instructions for the Warres by Raimond Beccarie de Pavie, Seigneur de Fourquevaux, London: Thomas Man and Toby Cooke, Chapter 5, p. 38, […] houses or other thing standing néere vnto a towne, or fort, are meanes to surprise and approach vnto it, and the approacher not be discouered, or impeached by the defenders.
   • Thou gavest thine ears like tapsters that bid welcome To knaves and all approachers: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
   • Stop, Headstrong Muse! And e’er we Higher go, Look down, with Caution, on the Depth below; Prospects, so vast, the Rash Approacher fright, And, dazling, wound the uncollected Sight: 1718, Aaron Hill, The Northern-Star, London: E. Berington and J. Morphew, page 13:
   • The monkeys’ calls warn other animals of approachers.
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 ). 1997 December 19, Erik Asphaug, “PLANETARY SCIENCE: Enhanced: New Views of Asteroids”, in Science, volume 278, number 5346, →DOI, pages 2070–2071:
   • We have some close approachers," he says, "but not one that would have an impact trajectory." 2005 June 3, Ted McClelland, “Something Big Is Out There”, in Chicago Reader:

Forms

Synonyms

earth approacher

Translations (3)

pt aproximador (someone or something that approaches) · ml സമീപിക്കുന്നയാൾ (someone or something that approaches) · fi lähestyjä (someone or something that approaches)