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Meaning of lightning mapper | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A system that displays a map of the position of recorded or real-time lightning discharges relative to the user or other objects.
  2. The component of such a system that gathers the required data, comprising an interconnected network of electric field change sensors that measure the time of arrival of electric field pulses from the strokes in a lightning flash. Two-dimensional maps require three such sensors, and three-dimensional maps require four.

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B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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