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Definition of Lightnings
1. lightning [v] - See also: lightning
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lightnings
Literary usage of Lightnings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Course of Meteorology by Ludwig Friedrich Kämtz, Charles Martins, Léon Louis Chrétien Lalanne (1845)
"Lightnings WITHOUT THUNDER. — When a storm is situated below the horizon, we
observe in the ... But, when the lightnings attain an angular height of 20°, ..."
2. Popular Lectures on Science and Art: Delivered in the Principal Cities and by Dionysius Lardner (1846)
"Explanations of silent Lightnings.—Observations of silent Lightnings.— Difficulties
in the Explanation of silent Lightnings. ..."
3. Meteorological Essays by François Arago, Alexander von Humboldt, Edward Sabine (1855)
"he says, that harmless lightnings escape in silence from certain clouds, ...
Lightnings without thunder in cloudy weather appear to be common in the West ..."
4. A Treatise on Electricity, in Theory and Practice by Auguste de La Rive, Charles Vincent Walker (1858)
"M. Petit, at Toulouse, has seen lightnings the length of which attained to upwards
of ten miles. Although lightning is more frequently followed by the noise ..."
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