sprelve
English
Etymology
Blend of sprite + elve
Noun
sprelve (plural sprelves)
- (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."
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See also
- blue starter
- bluejet
- elve
- gigantic jet
- gnome
- pixie
- red sprite
- sprite
- sprite halo
- transient luminous events
- troll
- upward lightning