Usually means: Distant lightning without audible thunder.
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  1. heat lightning: Merriam-Webster
  2. heat lightning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heat lightning: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heat lightning: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heat lightning: Vocabulary.com
  6. heat-lightning, heat lightning: Wordnik
  7. heat lightning: Wiktionary
  8. heat lightning: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. heat lightning: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. heat lightning: Dictionary.com
  11. Heat Lightning (film), Heat lightning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. heat lightning: Rhymezone
  13. heat lightning: FreeDictionary.org
  14. heat lightning: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. heat lightning: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heat lightning: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heat lightning: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heat lightning)

noun:  Lightning and/or thunder which the observer attributes to heat rather than a storm (e.g. because the storm/rain is too distant to be seen, or because there is no rain, as with dry lighting).
noun:  (in particular) Visible lightning that occurs too far away for the resulting thunder to be audible by the observer.
noun:  (less commonly) Thunder that is heard without lightning being seen by the observer; heat thunder.

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