blue jet
noun
a faint discharge of blue light from the top of a thunderstorm cloud that propagates upward: extends approximately from the bottom to the top of the stratosphere and is not detectable from the ground.
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Also called reverse lightning .
Origin of blue jet
1990–95
Words nearby blue jet
bluejacking, blue jasmine, blue jay, blue-jeaned, blue jeans, blue jet, blue john, blue law, blue laws, blue-leg, blue lias
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Scientific definitions for blue jet
blue jet
A conical discharge of blue light that starts from the top of active thunderstorm clouds and proceeds upward. Blue jets can last up to several hundred milliseconds and are believed to connect the top of a thundercloud with the ionosphere.
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