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blue starters

blue starters is the plural of blue starter.

Meaning of blue starter

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

Questions about blue starters

What is blue starters the plural of?
Blue starters is the plural of blue starter.

Words near blue starters in the dictionary

  1. blue squares
  2. blue stain
  3. blue stains
  4. blue star wife
  5. blue starter
  6. blue starters
  7. blue state
  8. blue states
  9. blue straggler
  10. blue stragglers
  11. blue streak

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