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side flashes

side flashes is the plural of side flash.

side flashes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of side flash.

Meaning of side flash

Noun

side flash (plural side flashes)

  1. A disruptive electrical discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency (such as lightning) and neighbouring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor.
    • There's the side flash. That's when an animal or person is standing close to the tree, the tree is hit by lightning, and then the lightning jumps from tree to person or animal. The side flash usually kills one or a small number of animals, not large ones like with ground currents.2016 August 29, Angela Chen, quoting John Jensenius, “How exactly did lightning kill 323 reindeer in Norway?”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 29 May 2023

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Questions about side flashes

What is side flashes the plural of?
Side flashes is the plural of side flash.

Words near side flashes in the dictionary

  1. side eyeing
  2. side eyes
  3. side eying
  4. side flash
  5. side flashed
  6. side flashes
  7. side flashing
  8. side gaze
  9. side gazes
  10. side gig
  11. side gigs

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