side flash

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A disruptive electrical discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency (such as lightning) and neighbouring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor.
    — There's the side flash. That's when an animal or person is standing close to the tree, the tree is hit by lightning, and then the lightning jumps from tree to person or animal. The side flash usually kills one or a small number of animals, not large ones like with ground currents.
动词 v.
  1. Of electricity: to create a side flash. intransitive
    — The charge traveled down the aluminum mast, and, not finding a path to ground, it side-flashed, blowing out the boat's hull.

词形变化

side flashes plural side-flash alternative sideflash alternative side flashes present,singular,third-person side flashing participle,present side flashed participle,past side flashed past side-flash alternative sideflash alternative
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