gigantic jet

noun

An upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, a carrot-shaped red sprite that propagates upward from the core of an oceanic thunderstorm.

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Meanings

noungigantic jet (plural gigantic jets)

plural gigantic jets

  1. astronomyAn upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, a carrot-shaped red sprite that propagates upward from the core of an oceanic thunderstorm.

    Gigantic jets appear to provide an electrical connection between cloud tops and the ionosphere.

    2009, Michael C. Kelley, The earth's ionosphere: plasma physics and electrodynamics, Academic Press, page 364
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