airglow


Also found in: Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

air·glow

 (âr′glō′)
n.
A low- or middle-latitude, more or less steady, faint photochemical luminescence visible in the upper atmosphere at night.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

airglow

(ˈɛəˌɡləʊ)
n
(Physical Geography) the faint light from the upper atmosphere in the night sky, esp in low latitudes
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

air•glow

(ˈɛərˌgloʊ)

n.
a dim light, usu. visible at night, that results from ionic radiation in the upper atmosphere.
[1950–55]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
"Wave Breaking Signatures in OH Airglow and Sodium Densities and Temperatures: 1.
Seaport Sustainable: Use of Artificial Intelligence to Evaluate Liquid Natural Gas Utilization in Short Sea Shipping
Alexander, 2013: Simultaneous observations of convective gravity waves from a ground-based airglow imager and the AIRS satellite experiment.
THE DARK SIDE OF HURRICANE MATTHEW: Unique Perspectives from the VIIRS Day/Night Band: The VIIRS Day/Night Band on Suomi NPP reveals key nocturnal aspects of the storm during its deadly traverse through the Caribbean and the U.S. eastern seaboard
Known as an airglow, these bands of light are generated in the upper layers of our atmosphere and stretch anywhere from 50-400 miles.
Airglow: A Halo Around Our Earth!
CHEPSTOW Going: Good 5.10: AIRGLOW (H Turner 15-8) 1; Glamorous Rocket (11-8f) 2; Charming Guest (7-2) 3 4 ran.
RACING RESULTS RACING RESULTS RACING RESULTS RACING RESULTS
CHEPSTOW: 5.10 Airglow, 5.40 The Establishment, 6.10 Jaganory, 6.40 Bounty Pursuit, 7.10 Kenstone, 7.40 Lady Valdean, 8.10 Rainbow Jazz.
TOMORROW'S TIPS
Two of them come from Mick Easterby's yard, Airglow in the 5.10 and Weld Al Emarat in the lady riders race at 7.10.
Welsh trainer Ron Harris lands the old one-two at Wolverhampton; Powerful Dream leads home Glamorous Rocket on the all-weather, while 100/1 Auld Sod finishes a close third for trainer at Newton Abbot
Nigel Tinkler's filly took a leap forward when second to Airglow in a hotter event at York and can resume winning ways on tonight's faster surface.
northern bites
AIRGLOW (Mick Easterby) THE three-year-old gelding is yet to win six starts with Mick Easterby, but hinted that may change with a fine third to hat-trick hero Alsvinder at Catterick.
PIPERS NOTE (Ruth Carr) Watch out for..
"The object was below the airglow," Detlef Koschny, who studies near-Earth objects for the ESA, said in the agency's blog post on the fireball.
Video: Astronaut Sees Meteor Fireball From Space
BGU and TAU have already submitted a joint proposal to study Earth's airglow layer.
Two Israeli Nanosatellites Launched into Space

Dictionary browser ?
Full browser ?