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

Usage examples of crater.

As the FBI set up a command center in the ballroom of the Vista Hotel, and agents from the Bureau and ATF began to crawl through the crater to assess the massive damage, the authorities gave no order to hold or delay any flights departing for the Middle East.

Tsavo, Serengeti, Arusha, Ngorongoro and its crater, all those national parks and game reserves that had once been household names, and in the North - Meru, Samburu, Marsabit.

The volcano had awoke, and the vapor had penetrated the mineral layer heaped at the bottom of the crater.

I had also been careful to come anonymously to the city, traveling in a rented vehicle across the Crater Plain at night, hiring a room in a slum tenement and staying away from any haunt-locks and blacklight devices that might scan my soul engrams and reveal me for what I was: Hestia Memar, a woman of Winterstrike, an enemy.

The image shifted to the Brandenburg Gate, where police guards in black and red and gold surrounded the bomb crater.

The suits were essential, though contrary to expectation it had been found that some air still existed upon the moon and in the deepest craters was almost breatheable during the lunar day.

The Chinese are moving along the largest of these dry valleys, Chasma Boreale, which ends at crater Zw, nicknamed the Plughole.

Vastitas Borealis, skirting the scarp of the big Lomonsov crater and navigating the rolling dune sea to the mouth of Chasma Boreale.

Chatterjee A, B and C were a triad of simple craters just below Chladni, and while the smaller two were of minimal interest, Chatterjee A was the child of a meteor that had punched through the Imbrian basalts to as sweet a vein of aluminum ore as anything in the highlands.

Its face was pockmarked with craters and chasms, crisscrossed with hundreds of crevices.

Melas Dorsa is moderately cratered land, cut from the south by shallow canyons, and swept by low dunes.

Dominico and Dowst connected the wires from the rocket head to a reel of wire and rolled it toward the crater.

Below the mountains there was a broad, scrubby plain, desert but not the dryest of desert, with plenty of low trees and little tufts of grass, broken in four places by the low, crumbling rises of the crater walls, mute and ancient witnesses to the Bombardment.

Jack said to her as they waited at the lip of the crater that held Fernbrake Lake for the other three to catch up.

If a man tried to leave the crater, escape back to his own lines, the rebel muskets were ready, and if the aim was not good, It did not matter, because the blue masses were too great a target, too many to hide from the storm of lead.