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green flashes

green flashes is the plural of green flash.

Meaning of green flash

Noun

green flash (plural green flashes)

  1. A rare phenomenon observed in the morning or evening when the sun is crossing or immediately below the horizon, in which a momentary flash or ray of green light appears above the upper rim of the solar disk, caused by the refraction of light in the atmosphere.
    • Frank T. Davies, physicist on board the City of New York, en route to the Antarctic regions with Byrd Antarctic Expedition, reports as follows on a green flash observed off Bermuda on the evening of August 29, 1928.1929, J. A. Fleming, "Observations of Green Flash," Science, New Series, vol. 69, no. 1785, p. 298
    Synonyms:
    green ray

Questions about green flashes

What is green flashes the plural of?
Green flashes is the plural of green flash.

Words near green flashes in the dictionary

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