"bluejet" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: bluejets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bluejet (plural bluejets)
  1. (astronomy, meteorology) an upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity Categories (topical): Astronomy, Meteorology Synonyms: blue jet, blue-jet Translations (optical phenomenon): viuhkasalama (Finnish), jet bleu [masculine] (French), scaird ghorm [feminine] (Irish)

Inflected forms

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