sferics
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Electromagnetic pulses caused by atmospheric phenomena, such as lightning. plural of sferic
noun
Radio interference caused by sferics; atmospherics.
Example Sentences
- "A Sferics Locating System has been developed to determine the geographical location of lightning strokes..."
- "...an artificial sferics generator was used as a known source of EM pulses."
- "1987: Barbara Tufty, 1001 Questions Answered About Hurricanes, Tornadoes and Other Natural Air Disasters http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0486254550&id=LpVoN0gmVKcC&pg=RA2-PA38&lpg=RA2-PA38&dq=sferics&sig=BapiarKgnm1NVr9NDBl1Xcgtp-A Researchers have thought that possibly these sferics could be used to track hurricanes—but so far, they have been only marginally successful."
- "Sferics are classified normally by the frequency of the receiver used to detect them."
- "This circuit generates a bipolar pulse waveform that closely approximates the main features of sferics."
- "The second common theoretical approach of the propagation of sferics involves viewing the Earth-ionosphere cavity as a waveguide..."
Etymology
From atmospherics.