A typical lightning bolt has an optical power of about 1 billion watts. The superbolt flashes radiate 100 billion to 10 trillion (10¹¹)-(10¹³) watts. They are quite rare.
Source: wiktionary
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
3 total sentences available.
A typical lightning bolt has an optical power of about 1 billion watts. The superbolt flashes radiate 100 billion to 10 trillion (10¹¹)-(10¹³) watts. They are quite rare.
Source: wiktionary
This low lightning rate is insufficient to affect the global NOx production, however it may cause local enhancement near Japan where most superbolts occur.
Source: wiktionary
In rare cases a positively charged giant 'superbolt' may discharge from the forward (or rear) anvil cloud to the negatively charged ground ahead of (or behind) the thunderstorm base.
Source: wiktionary
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.