"red sprite" meaning in English

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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Thomas E. Svarney, Skies of fury: weather weirdness around the world, Simon and Schuster, page 99:",
          "text": "Red sprites flash high above thunderstorm clouds.",
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        "An upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, a large but weak luminous flash that appears directly above an active thunderstorm system and is coincident with a powerful positive cloud-to-ground lightning strike."
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        "(astronomy, meteorology) An upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, a large but weak luminous flash that appears directly above an active thunderstorm system and is coincident with a powerful positive cloud-to-ground lightning strike."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "blue starter"
        },
        {
          "word": "blue jet"
        },
        {
          "word": "elve"
        },
        {
          "word": "gigantic jet"
        },
        {
          "word": "gnome"
        },
        {
          "word": "pixie"
        },
        {
          "word": "sprite halo"
        },
        {
          "word": "sprelve"
        },
        {
          "word": "sprite"
        },
        {
          "word": "transient luminous event"
        },
        {
          "word": "troll"
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          "word": "upward lightning"
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        "astronomy",
        "climatology",
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        "natural-sciences"
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  "word": "red sprite"
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      "word": "blue starter"
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    {
      "word": "blue jet"
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    {
      "word": "elve"
    },
    {
      "word": "gigantic jet"
    },
    {
      "word": "gnome"
    },
    {
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    {
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    },
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    },
    {
      "word": "sprite"
    },
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    },
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      "word": "troll"
    },
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        "(astronomy, meteorology) An upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, a large but weak luminous flash that appears directly above an active thunderstorm system and is coincident with a powerful positive cloud-to-ground lightning strike."
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