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blue starter

blue starter noun: 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.

Noun

blue starter (plural blue starters)

  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.
    • Blue starters were first observed in 1994.2007, Vladimir A. Rakov, Martin A. Uman, Lightning: Physics and Effects, Cambridge University Press, page 483

Forms of blue starter

pluralblue starters

Questions about blue starter

What does blue starter mean?
Blue starter means 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.
What part of speech is blue starter?
Blue starter is a noun.
What is the plural of blue starter?
The plural of blue starter is blue starters.

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