blue starter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rapidly expanding disc-shaped region of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, seen high above energetic lightning associated with hail-producing regions of thunderstorms, reaching up no higher than about twelve miles altitude.

Word forms

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