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sprite halos

sprite halos 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 halos

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

Words near sprite halos in the dictionary

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

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