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fireball

  (fīr'bôl') pronunciation
n.
  1. A brilliantly burning sphere.
  2. A highly luminous, intensely hot spherical cloud of dust, gas, and vapor generated by a nuclear explosion.
  3. A meteor that is as bright or brighter than the brightest planets.
  4. See ball of fire.

 
 

n. a ball of flame or fire. 2. an extremely hot, luminous ball of gas generated by a nuclear explosion.

3. a ball filled with combustibles or explosives, fired at an enemy or enemy fortifications.

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very bright meteor leaving a trail in the sky that can remain visible for several minutes; often a distinct sound, perhaps caused by very low frequency radio waves, is associated with it. A bolide ('līd) is a fireball that explodes in the air because of thermal stresses created when it passes through the earth's atmosphere.


 

(DOD, NATO) The luminous sphere of hot gases which forms a few millionths of a second after detonation of a nuclear weapon and immediately starts expanding and cooling.

 
Wikipedia: Fireball

Fireball is often used in reference to a large explosion or burst of fire. Fireball can also refer to:

In science:

  • A bolide, a meteor brighter than Venus (≈apparent magnitude -5).
  • In a nuclear explosion, the volume of air around the bomb that is heated to incandescence; see also Mike Fireball
  • A "primordial fireball," a term coined by P.J.E. Peebles to describe the universe during the first 300,000 years after the Big Bang
  • The hot volume that is created when large particles are collided together at an energy that is high enough to create quark-gluon plasma in Quantum chromodynamics.

In games:

  • Fireball (pinball), a pinball machine released by Bally in 1972
  • An archetypal magic (gaming) effect in fantasy role-playing games, such as Dungeons and Dragons, it is typically a magical sphere of fire that explodes on impact
  • In a versus fighting game, a colloquial term for a number of ranged projectile attacks
    • A Hadouken, the original attack that gained the name, from the Street Fighter series
  • A Fire Flower, which allows characters in the Super Mario Bros. series of video games to shoot fireballs
  • Fireball Island, a 1986 Milton Bradley board game
  • Fire Ball Sport, a game played with a tennis ball and lighter fluid, Scorching good fun!

In engineering:

In fiction:

  • Fireball XL5, a British television series made in the 1960s
  • Ball of Fire, a 1941 comedy film starring Gary Cooper
  • "Fireball", a major character in the animated television series Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
  • "Fireball", one of the "stalkers" from the movie The Running Man
  • A character in the British comic book Bullet (comic) (that was later absorbed into the comic Warlord)
  • Fireball (Charmed), a fictional demonic power in the television show Charmed

In music:

  • "Great Balls of Fire," a song by Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Great Balls of Fire (film), a movie biography of Jerry Lee Lewis
  • The Fireballs, a rock and roll band of the 1950s and 1960s, also known as Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs.
  • Fireballs, a psychobilly band from Melbourne, Australia.
  • Fireball (album), the sixth studio album released by the British hard rock band Deep Purple in 1971
  • "Fireball (B'z song)", the 21st single by Japanese band B'z
  • Fireball Zone, an album from Ric Ocasek

Fireball can also refer to:

  • Fireball Roberts, a highly-regarded NASCAR driver
    • The Fireball Run, an American road rally event named after Fireball Roberts
  • Atomic Fireballs, hot, cinnamon-flavored hard candies
  • A Canadian cinnamon-flavoured whiskey produced by Dr. McGillicuddy's
  • An illegal wrestling move where someone throws a quick burning piece of paper into someone else's face
  • The Remington XP-100, also known as the ".221 Remington Fireball", the highest velocity production handgun cartridge

 
Translations: Fireball

Dansk (Danish)
n. - ildkugle, krudttønde, dynamisk person

Nederlands (Dutch)
vuurbol, schitterende meteoor, wolk van nucleaire explosie, energetisch persoon, ronde lamp, ballon gevuld met brandstof

Français (French)
n. - boule de feu

Deutsch (German)
n. - Feuerkugel, Feuerball, Meteor, unermüdlicher Mensch

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (αστρον.) (αστρο)βολίδα, αερόλιθος

Italiano (Italian)
sfera di fuoco, palla infuocata, bolide, meteorite

Português (Portuguese)
n. - bola (f) de fogo

Русский (Russian)
болид, шаровая молния, зажигательное ядро

Español (Spanish)
n. - bola de fuego, bólido

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - eldkula, slags äldre brandgranat, energiknippe (vard.)

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
火球, 太阳, 大流星

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 火球, 太陽, 大流星

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 불덩어리, 번개, 태양, 속구

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 火の玉, 流星, 火球, 大流星

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) كرة ناريه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כדור-אש, שד משחת, מטיאור גדול‬


 
 

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