sheet lighting

1. 1.

   lightning that appears as a broad sheet; due to reflections of more distant lightning and to diffusion by the clouds

   Broaderlightning

Questions about sheet lighting

What does sheet lighting mean?

sheet lighting means "lightning that appears as a broad sheet; due to reflections of more distant lightning and to diffusion by the clouds".

Is sheet lighting a common word?

sheet lighting 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.