Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

green flash

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English

Syllables: green flash
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A rare phenomenon observed in the morning or evening when the sun is crossing or immediately below the horizon, in which a momentary flash or ray of green light appears above the upper rim of the solar disk, caused by the refraction of light in the atmosphere.

Example Sentences

"Frank T. Davies, physicist on board the City of New York, en route to the Antarctic regions with Byrd Antarctic Expedition, reports as follows on a green flash observed off Bermuda on the evening of August 29, 1928."

Inflected Forms

green flashes (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

blue flash

Synonyms

green ray

Questions

What does green flash mean?: A rare phenomenon observed in the morning or evening when the sun is crossing or immediately below the horizon, in which a momentary flash or ray of green light appears above the upper rim of the solar disk, caused by the refraction of light in the atmosphere.

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