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- DictionaryLightning strike/ˌlʌɪtnɪŋ ˈstrʌɪk/
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- 1. a strike by workers after little or no warning, especially without official union backing. British
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A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which the electric discharge takes place between the atmosphere and the ground. Most originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning. A less common type of strike, ground-to-cloud (GC) lightning, is upward-propagating lightning initiated from a tall grounded object and reaching into th... Wikipedia