base surge
noun
A ringlike turbulent cloud of gas, ash, debris, etc., that spreads rapidly outwards at ground or sea level from the site of a nuclear explosion, a meteorite impact, or a volcanic eruption.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Huronite & Daily Plainsman (Huron, South Dakota).
- photo-
- photoabsorbing
- photoabsorption
- photoacoustic
- photoact
- photoaction
- photoactivatable
- photoactivate
- photoactivated
- photoactivation
- photoactive
- photoactivity
- photoaffinity
- photoaged
- photoageing
- photoaging
- photoallergic
- photoallergy
- photo-aquatint
- photoassimilate
- photoassimilation
- photoautotroph
- photoautotrophic
- photoautotrophy
- photobacterium