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单词 sprelve
释义

sprelve

English

Etymology

Blend of sprite + elve

Noun

sprelve (plural sprelves)

  1. (astronomy, meteorology) An upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, in which an elve is immediately followed by a sprite.
    • 2006, Martin Füllekrug, Eugene A. Mareev, Michael J. Rycroft, Sprites, elves and intense lightning discharges:
      In the early days of LLTV monitoring it was common to observe an apparent elve followed by a sprite, sometimes called a "sprelve." While elves do indeed precede some sprites, the "sprelve" in most cases, was found to represent a "sprite halo."

See also

  • blue starter
  • bluejet
  • elve
  • gigantic jet
  • gnome
  • pixie
  • red sprite
  • sprite
  • sprite halo
  • transient luminous events
  • troll
  • upward lightning
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