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(humorous) An explanation for a crash of thunder.
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(meteorology) The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
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A short-lived glowing ball sometimes observed to float in the air and thought to consist of ionized gas associated with thunderstorms.
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A relatively rare form of cloud-to-ground lightning which appears to break up into a string of short, bright sections, and lasts longer than the usual discharge channel.
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A tracing or chart showing the phenomena accompanying a thunderstorm.
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Cloud-to-ground lightning; lightning which connects (attaches) to the ground; lightning which results in the discharge of electricity between a cloud and the ground.
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Lightning in angular, zigzag, or forked flashes.
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A weather phenomenon that is related to the production of lightning within a volcanic plume.
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Lightning strikes that occur when there is no rain, thus a common cause of bushfires or forest fires.
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(astronomy, meteorology) an upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity
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(obsolete) Mixed with, or emitting, lightning.
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Lightning that contains bolts that branch.
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An artistic or graphic representation of a thunderbolt.
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Something incredibly fast (now mainly used in comparison: like or faster than greased lightning).
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Lightning that occurs too far away for the resulting thunder to be audible by the observer.
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Intracloud lightning; lightning which occurs within a cloud, resulting in the discharge of electricity between regions of the cloud. (Often, but not always, this takes the form of sheet lightning.)
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(US, informal) Applejack.
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(meteorology) The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.
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(obsolete) A lightning bolt.
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A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.
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A single, visible discharge of lightning.
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(idiomatic) Great, unlikely, fleeting success, particularly entrepreneurial or in the media.
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(meteorology) A system that displays a map of the position of recorded or real-time lightning discharges relative to the user or other objects.
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(figuratively) A person or thing that is a target for negative reactions and distracts criticism from another target.
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A lightning bolt, stroke of lightning, one of the events during an electrical storm when lightning strikes (an object on) the ground or an aircraft in flight.
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A broad flash of lightning, with no visible bolt, due to reflection.
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An electrical discharge, or corona, seen around pointed objects, caused by ionization of the atmosphere during storms.
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(meteorology, rare) A rare form of lightning where the bolt is much stronger (such as 100x) and lasts much longer (such as 5x) than the usual forms of lightning.
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(meteorology, rare) Extremely powerful lightning; a superbolt.
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(figuratively) The spotlight.
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(heraldry) A charge in the form of two joined bundles with four rays of lightning emerging from them, resembling the thunderbolt of Jupiter.
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(rare, nonstandard) Lightning; a bolt or flash of lightning.
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(archaic) A thunderbolt.
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(astronomy, meteorology) An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, in which the lightning bolt projects straight into the upper atmosphere.
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