flamelet

plural flamelets

1. A small flame.

   For weak turbulence the local structure of these flamelets approaches that of unperturbed steady laminar flames.

   2013, R. Borghi, S.N.B. Murthy, Turbulent Reactive Flows

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   And every separate window-pane, / Backed by the outer darkness, showed / A mirror, where the flamelets gleamed / And flickered to and fro, and seemed / A bonfire lighted in the road.

   1873 August, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[I. Tales of a Wayside Inn.] Prelude.”, in Aftermath, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, stanza 2, page 2