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Elve

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of elf. alt-of, obsolete

    "Sir Olof, he rode out at early day, / And so came he unto an Elve-dance gay."

  2. 2
    A rapidly expanding disk-shaped region of red luminosity in the ionosphere, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occurs high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity.

    "It is likely that the first elve was recorded with the Space Shuttle low-light camera."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Obsolete form of elf.

Etymology 2

From e(mission of) l(ight and) v(ery low-frequency perturbations from) e(lectromagnetic pulse sources), and to avoid clashing with the acronym ELF (extremely low frequency) used in the same field of science.

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