elve

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. 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.

词形变化

elves plural elves plural ELVE alternative ELVES alternative

词源

词源 1
Obsolete form of elf.
词源 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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