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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
An acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("elves" is a kind of...):
atmospheric electricity (electrical discharges in the atmosphere)