lightning mapper
lightning mapper noun: a system that displays a map of the position of recorded or real-time lightning discharges relative to the user or other objects.
Noun
lightning mapper (plural lightning mappers)
- A system that displays a map of the position of recorded or real-time lightning discharges relative to the user or other objects.
- The component of such a system that gathers the required data, comprising an interconnected network of electric field change sensors that measure the time of arrival of electric field pulses from the strokes in a lightning flash. Two-dimensional maps require three such sensors, and three-dimensional maps require four.
Forms of lightning mapper
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Questions about lightning mapper
- What does lightning mapper mean?
- Lightning mapper means a system that displays a map of the position of recorded or real-time lightning discharges relative to the user or other objects.
- What part of speech is lightning mapper?
- Lightning mapper is a noun.
- What is the plural of lightning mapper?
- The plural of lightning mapper is lightning mappers.
Words near lightning mapper in the dictionary
- lightning dischargers
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- lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place
- lightning fast
- lightning in a bottle
- lightning mapper
- lightning mappers
- lightning never strikes in the same place twice
- lightning never strikes the same place twice
- lightning never strikes twice
- lightning never strikes twice in the same place
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