English Dictionary

green flash

名詞

(meteorology, astronomy) A rare phenomenon observed in morning or evening when the sun is crossing or immediately below the horizon, in which a momentary flash or ray of green light appears above the upper rim of the solar disk, caused by refraction of light in the atmosphere.

日本語の意味

（気象学・天文学）日の出前または日没後に、太陽が地平線近くを通過するとき、太陽円盤の上部端の上に現れる一瞬の緑色の閃光現象。

We waited on the cliff at sunset hoping to catch a green flash.

私たちは日没の崖で、大気の屈折によって太陽が地平線の下に沈みかけるときに太陽の上縁の上に一瞬現れる緑の閃光を見られることを期待して待ちました。

意味（1）

(meteorology, astronomy) A rare phenomenon observed in morning or evening when the sun is crossing or immediately below the horizon, in which a momentary flash or ray of green light appears above the upper rim of the solar disk, caused by refraction of light in the atmosphere.

Frank T. Davies, physicist on board the City of New York, en route to the Antarctic regions with Byrd Antarctic Expedition, reports as follows on a green flash observed off Bermuda on the evening of August 29, 1928.

green flashes （ plural ）