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sprite haloes

sprite haloes is the plural of sprite halo.

Meaning of sprite halo

Noun

sprite halo (plural sprite halos or sprite haloes)

  1. An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a diffuse disk-shaped glow that precedes a sprite and propagates downward.
    • In lhe: 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

Questions about sprite haloes

What is sprite haloes the plural of?
Sprite haloes is the plural of sprite halo.

Words near sprite haloes in the dictionary

  1. sprit-sail
  2. sprit-sails
  3. sprite
  4. sprite comic
  5. sprite halo
  6. sprite haloes
  7. sprite halos
  8. sprited
  9. spriteful
  10. spritefully
  11. spritefulness

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