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Electronic detector of storms
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sferics
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n. 1 electromagnetic pulses caused by atmospheric phenomena, such as lightning. (plural of sferic English) 2 radio interference caused by sferics; atmospherics.
Usage examples of sferics.
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.
He plodded up to his turret room with its ludicrous circular bed and found that a typhoon of sferics had been bombarding the earth.
Mondaugen was here as part of a program having to do with atmospheric radio disturbances: sferics for short.