red sprites

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   atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves)

   Synonymssprites

   Broaderatmospheric electricity

Questions about red sprites

What does red sprites mean?

red sprites means "atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves)".

What is another word for red sprites?

Close synonyms include sprites. 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 red sprites a common word?

red sprites 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.