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名詞

thunderlight (複数形 thunderlights)

1. (まれに, nonstandard) Lightning; a bolt or flash of lightning.
   • 1986, Association for the Development of Earthquake Prediction (Japan), Earthquake prediction research:

     A pillar of fire something like a thunderlight was seen for 30 minutes. No sound was accompanied.

   • 1995, Stephen King, Insomnia:

     This powerful but disquieting thunderlight circled the tiny body with the idiot speed of the atmosphere surrounding a gas giant—Jupiter, say, or Saturn.