blue jet

1. 1.

   atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward

   Synonymsjetreverse lightning

   Broaderatmospheric electricity

Questions about blue jet

What does blue jet mean?

blue jet means "atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward".

What is another word for blue jet?

Close synonyms include jet, reverse lightning. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blue jet a common word?

blue jet is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.