"kugelblitz" meaning in All languages combined

See kugelblitz on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: kugelblitzes [plural]
Etymology: German Kugelblitz (“ball lightning”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|de|Kugelblitz||ball lightning}} German Kugelblitz (“ball lightning”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} kugelblitz (plural kugelblitzes)
  1. (theoretical physics) A concentration of light so intense that it forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped, forming a black hole. Categories (topical): Black holes, Light
    Sense id: en-kugelblitz-en-noun-WeUfvaXe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for kugelblitz meaning in All languages combined (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "Kugelblitz",
        "4": "",
        "5": "ball lightning"
      },
      "expansion": "German Kugelblitz (“ball lightning”)",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "German Kugelblitz (“ball lightning”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kugelblitzes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "kugelblitz (plural kugelblitzes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Black holes",
          "orig": "en:Black holes",
          "parents": [
            "Astronomy",
            "Astrophysics",
            "Gravity",
            "Relativity",
            "Sciences",
            "Space",
            "Physics",
            "Acceleration",
            "Mechanics",
            "All topics",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Light",
          "orig": "en:Light",
          "parents": [
            "Energy",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 303",
          "text": "Specifically, what she’s talking about is called a kugelblitz—a kind of black hole formed not from the collapse of matter, but from an overwhelming intensity of heat or radiation...or light.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A concentration of light so intense that it forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped, forming a black hole."
      ],
      "id": "en-kugelblitz-en-noun-WeUfvaXe",
      "links": [
        [
          "concentration",
          "concentration"
        ],
        [
          "light",
          "light"
        ],
        [
          "intense",
          "intense"
        ],
        [
          "event horizon",
          "event horizon"
        ],
        [
          "black hole",
          "black hole"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "theoretical physics",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(theoretical physics) A concentration of light so intense that it forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped, forming a black hole."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kugelblitz"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "Kugelblitz",
        "4": "",
        "5": "ball lightning"
      },
      "expansion": "German Kugelblitz (“ball lightning”)",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "German Kugelblitz (“ball lightning”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kugelblitzes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "kugelblitz (plural kugelblitzes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from German",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English undefined derivations",
        "en:Black holes",
        "en:Light"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 303",
          "text": "Specifically, what she’s talking about is called a kugelblitz—a kind of black hole formed not from the collapse of matter, but from an overwhelming intensity of heat or radiation...or light.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A concentration of light so intense that it forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped, forming a black hole."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "concentration",
          "concentration"
        ],
        [
          "light",
          "light"
        ],
        [
          "intense",
          "intense"
        ],
        [
          "event horizon",
          "event horizon"
        ],
        [
          "black hole",
          "black hole"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "theoretical physics",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(theoretical physics) A concentration of light so intense that it forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped, forming a black hole."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kugelblitz"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.