Look up: LIGHTNING

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   Lightning
   Lightning is a spark discharge of electricity between two charged clouds or between a charged cloud and the earth.
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   Lightning
   Discharge of static electricity in the atmosphere, usually between the ground and a storm cloud.
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   lightning
   [n] - abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light 2. [n] - the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash)
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   lightning
   visible spark of electric discharge in the air between cloud and cloud or cloud and earth, usually but not necessarily accompanied by thunder and storm; Can cause extensive fires Category: Management in the public and private sector • discharge of electricity Category: Electrical engineering and energy • luminous manifestation accompanying a sudden electrical discharge whic...
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   Lightning
   Light'ning (līt'nĭng) noun [ For lightening , from lighten to flash.] 1. A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder. 2. The act of making bright, or t ...
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   Lightning
   Light'ning (līt'nĭng) verbal noun Lightening. [ R.]
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   lightning
   1. A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder. ... 2. The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, ...
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   lightning
   noun the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more
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   lightning
   noun abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
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    Lightning
    `Lightning` is an atmospheric discharge of electricity, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms. There are over 16 million lightning storms every year. Lightning can also occur within the ash clouds from volcanic eruptions, or can be caused by violent forest fires which generate sufficient dust to create a static charge. How lightning initially forms is still a matter of debate: Ice in...
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    Lightning
    • (n.) A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder. • (n.) The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenmen...
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    Lightning
    (from the article `Thornycroft, Sir John Isaac`) Soon after he established his launch-building and engineering works at Chiswick, London, in 1866, Thornycroft received the order for the first ...
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    Lightning
    (from the article `clipper ship`) ...1851, made the voyage from New York City to San Francisco in a record 89 days, and the James Baines set the transatlantic sailing record of 12 ... ...Subsequently the Witch of the Wave (an American clipper) sailed from Canton to Deal in England in 1852 in just 90 days. Similar feats of sailing ... ...
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    lightning
    the visible discharge of electricity that occurs when a region of a cloud acquires an excess electrical charge, either positive or negative, that is ... [15 related articles]
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    Lightning
    Visible discharge of electricity created by thunderstorms.
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    LIGHTNING
    A sudden and visible discharge of electricity produced in response to the build up of electrical potential between cloud and ground, between clouds, within a single cloud, or between a cloud and surrounding air. Related terms: ball lightning and heat lightning
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    Lightning
    All forms of visible electrical discharges moving through the atmosphere, usually eminating from tall cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds during thunderstorms. Lightning is often categorized for the manner in which it is visible to the observer: streak lightning, forked lightning, sheet lightning, heat lightning.
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    lightning
    Multiple cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud lightning strokes during night-time. Credit: NOAA A discharge of atmospheric electricity resulting in a flash of light in the sky. Most lightning occurs between two parts of a single cloud, some between cloud and ground, and a small amount between one cl...
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    lightning
    lightning, electrical discharge accompanied by thunder, commonly occurring during a thunderstorm. The discharge may take place between one part of a cloud and another part (intracloud), between one cloud and another (intercloud), between a cloud and the earth, or earth and cloud. Lightning may appea...
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