"green flash" meaning in English

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          "langcode": "en",
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          "ref": "1929, J. A. Fleming, \"Observations of Green Flash,\" Science, New Series, vol. 69, no. 1785, p. 298",
          "text": "Frank T. Davies, physicist on board the City of New York, en route to the Antarctic regions with Byrd Antarctic Expedition, reports as follows on a green flash observed off Bermuda on the evening of August 29, 1928."
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      "glosses": [
        "A rare phenomenon observed in morning or evening when the sun is crossing or immediately below the horizon, in which a momentary flash or ray of green light appears above the upper rim of the solar disk, caused by refraction of light in the atmosphere."
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          "rare",
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          "phenomenon",
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          "morning",
          "morning"
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        [
          "evening",
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        ],
        [
          "sun",
          "sun"
        ],
        [
          "horizon",
          "horizon"
        ],
        [
          "momentary",
          "momentary"
        ],
        [
          "ray",
          "ray"
        ],
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          "rim",
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        ],
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          "atmosphere",
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        "(meteorology, astronomy) A rare phenomenon observed in morning or evening when the sun is crossing or immediately below the horizon, in which a momentary flash or ray of green light appears above the upper rim of the solar disk, caused by refraction of light in the atmosphere."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "blue flash"
        }
      ],
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        "climatology",
        "meteorology",
        "natural-sciences"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "alt": "りょくせんこう",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "ryokusenkō",
          "sense": "rare phenomenon",
          "word": "緑閃光"
        },
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          "alt": "りょっこう",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "ryokkō",
          "sense": "rare phenomenon",
          "word": "緑光"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zeljónyj luč",
          "sense": "rare phenomenon",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "зелёный луч"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "green flash"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "green flash"
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    {
      "word": "blue flash"
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        }
      ],
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        "A rare phenomenon observed in morning or evening when the sun is crossing or immediately below the horizon, in which a momentary flash or ray of green light appears above the upper rim of the solar disk, caused by refraction of light in the atmosphere."
      ],
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        "(meteorology, astronomy) A rare phenomenon observed in morning or evening when the sun is crossing or immediately below the horizon, in which a momentary flash or ray of green light appears above the upper rim of the solar disk, caused by refraction of light in the atmosphere."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "climatology",
        "meteorology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
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      "alt": "りょくせんこう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ryokusenkō",
      "sense": "rare phenomenon",
      "word": "緑閃光"
    },
    {
      "alt": "りょっこう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ryokkō",
      "sense": "rare phenomenon",
      "word": "緑光"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zeljónyj luč",
      "sense": "rare phenomenon",
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "зелёный луч"
    }
  ],
  "word": "green flash"
}