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1. (noun) lightning
abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light

2. (noun) lightning
the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more

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Webster 1913 Dictionary

1. (noun) lightning
a discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder

2. (noun) lightning
the act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers

3. lightning
lightening

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U.S. National Library of Medicine

1. lightning
An abrupt high-current electric discharge that occurs in the ATMOSPHERE and that has a path length ranging from hundreds of feet to tens of miles. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)

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