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heat lightning
heat lightningn. Intermittent flashes of light near the horizon, usually seen on a hot summer evening, unaccompanied by thunder and thought to be cloud reflections of distant lightning.heat lightning n (Physical Geography) flashes of light seen near the horizon, esp on hot evenings: reflections of more distant lightning heat′ light`ning
n. lightning too distant for thunder to be heard, observed as diffuse flashes near the horizon on summer evenings. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | heat lightning - bright flashes of light near the horizon without thunder (especially on hot evenings); usually attributed to distant lightning that is reflected by cloudslightning - the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more |
Translationsheat lightning
heat lightning[′hēt ‚līt·niŋ] (geophysics) Nontechnically, the luminosity observed from ordinary lightning too far away for its thunder to be heard. heat lightning
Related to heat lightning: sheet lightningWords related to heat lightningnoun bright flashes of light near the horizon without thunder (especially on hot evenings)Related Words |