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superlightning en · NOUN

Etymology

From super- + lightning.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) Extremely powerful lightning; a superbolt.
    • Many of the superlightning phenomena detected by the satellites were produced by winter storms over Japan and the northeast Pacific. 1978, Science Update, Gaylord Professional Publications., page 131:
    • We've discovered a strange soil chemistry on Mars, well-ordered wind systems on Venus, superlightning bolts, giant auroras, and a thin system of rings at Jupiter, volcanoes in eruption on the Jovian moon lo, and more rings and a whole gaggle of new moons around Saturn. 1981, Paranormal Borderlands of Science, Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 131:
    • Superlightning has been documented and recorded as shooting upward, beyond the cloud layer, thousands of feet. 2008, Charles E. Anzalone, Galactic Travel at Warp Speed in Imaginary Time, Xlibris US, →ISBN, page 19: