'Fireball' definitions:
Definition of 'fireball'
(from WordNet)
noun
An especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) [syn: bolide, fireball]
noun
noun
A ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning)
noun
The luminous center of a nuclear explosion
Definition of 'Fireball'
From: GCIDE
- Fireball \Fire"ball`\, n.
- 1. (Mil.) A ball filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be thrown among enemies, and to injure by explosion; also, to set fire to their works and light them up, so that movements may be seen. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A rare phenomenon often associated with or caused by lightning, resembling a luminous ball of fire passing rapidly through the air or along solid objects, then disappearing, and sometimes exploding. It seldom lasts more than a few seconds. Also called ball lightning, globe lightning, globular lightning, or kugelblitz. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
- 3. A large mass of fire caused by a large explosion, as of inflammable liquids or a nuclear device. The larger fireballs, as of nuclear explosions, rise seemingly intact into the air and may reach high altitudes while still glowing. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'fireball'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aerolite,
- alcohol,
- ball lightning,
- benzine,
- bolide,
- bolt,
- bolt of lightning,
- briquette,
- burnable,
- butane,
- carbon,
- chain lightning,
- charcoal,
- chondrite,
- coal,
- coke,
- combustible,
- cosmic dust,
- dark lightning,
- dope,
- ethane,
- ethanol,
- firebolt,
- firing,
- flammable,
- flammable material,
- flying flame,
- forked lightning,
- fuel,
- fuel additive,
- fuel dope,
- fulguration,
- fulmination,
- gas,
- gas carbon,
- gasoline,
- heptane,
- hexane,
- inflammable,
- inflammable material,
- isooctane,
- jet fuel,
- Jupiter Fulgur,
- kerosene,
- levin bolt,
- lightning,
- meteor,
- meteor crater,
- meteor dust,
- meteor shower,
- meteor swarm,
- meteor trail,
- meteor train,
- meteoric shower,
- meteorite,
- meteoroid,
- meteorolite,
- methane,
- methanol,
- micrometeorite,
- micrometeoroid,
- natural gas,
- oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
- octane,
- oil,
- paraffin,
- peat,
- pentane,
- propane,
- propellant,
- radiant,
- radiant point,
- rocket fuel,
- sheet lightning,
- shooting star,
- siderite,
- siderolite,
- stroke of lightning,
- tektite,
- Thor,
- thunderball,
- thunderbolt,
- thunderstroke,
- turf