sprelves
sprelves is the plural of sprelve.
Meaning of sprelve
Noun
sprelve (plural sprelves)
- An upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, in which an elve is immediately followed by a sprite.
- In the early days of LLTV monitoring it was common to observe an apparent elve followed by a sprite, sometimes called a "sprelve." While elves do indeed precede some sprites, the "sprelve" in most cases, was found to represent a "sprite halo."2006, Martin Füllekrug, Eugene A. Mareev, Michael J. Rycroft, Sprites, elves and intense lightning discharges, page 37
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- What is sprelves the plural of?
- Sprelves is the plural of sprelve.
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