sferics

noun

Etymology

From atmospherics.

Definitions

  1. plural of sferic

  2. Electromagnetic pulses caused by atmospheric phenomena, such as lightning. plural of…

    Electromagnetic pulses caused by atmospheric phenomena, such as lightning. plural of sferic

    • 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.
  3. Radio interference caused by sferics

    Radio interference caused by sferics; atmospherics.

    • In the identification of sources of short whistlers, the spectral characteristics of the sferics can often be used to establish many sferics as doubtful...
    • As it turned out, the whistler was only the first of a family of sferics whose taxonomy was to include clicks, hooks, risers, nose-whistlers and one like a warbling of birds called the dawn chorus....

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