electric glow

Questions about electric glow

What does electric glow mean?

electric glow means "an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere".

What is another word for electric glow?

Close synonyms include corona discharge, corona, corposant, St. Elmo's fire, Saint Elmo's fire. 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 electric glow a common word?

electric glow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.