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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A visible electric discharge on a pointed object, such as the mast of a ship or the wing of an airplane, during an electrical storm.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
St. Elmo's fire .
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- noun an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Saint Elmo, fourth-century AD patron saint of sailors.]
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