Look up: Lightning

1. Lightning
   Discharge of static electricity in the atmosphere, usually between the ground and a storm cloud.
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2. 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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3. 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 engi...
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4. 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 e...
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5. Lightning
   Light'ning (līt'nĭng) verbal noun Lightening. [ R.]
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6. 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 stat...
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7. 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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8. lightning
   noun abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
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9. 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 brigh...
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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. Lightning
    Lightning is a British slang name for a slow person.
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14. Lightning
    Lightning is a British slang name for a slow person.
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15. Lightning
    HMS Lightning was a British Lightning class destroyer of 1920 tons displacement built under the British War construction programme and launched in 1940 and sunk during the Second World War. She was armed with six 4.7-inch guns; several smaller guns and eight 21-inch torpedo tubes. She was powered by...
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16. lightning
    A visible electrical discharge produced by a thunderstorm from one cloud to another or from cloud to ground. Lightning kills more people in the US than do tornadoes.
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17. Lightning
    Lightning is a powerful natural electrostatic discharge produced during a thunderstorm. Lightning's abrupt electric discharge is accompanied by the emission of light.
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18. Lightning
    Visible discharge of electricity created by thunderstorms.
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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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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22. Lightning
    Lightning is the discharge of static electricity built up in clouds by the movement and rubbing of ice and water particles at speeds of around 100 mph within the cloud which cause electrons to be split off from the ice, and scattered randomly. The static electricity builds up within the cloud, until...
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23. lightning
    Type: Term Definitions: 1. astrapophobia, keraunophobia.
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24. lightning
    Click images to enlargeHigh-voltage electrical discharge between two rainclouds or between a cloud and the Earth, caused by the build-up of electrical charges. Air in the path of lightning ionizes (becomes a conductor), and expands; the accompanying noise is heard as thunder. Currents of 20,000 amperes and tem...
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25. Lightning
    `Lightning` is an atmospheric electrostatic discharge (spark) accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or author=NGDC - NOAA-->--> From this discharge of atmospheric electricity, a leader of a bolt of lightning can travel at speeds ...
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