plasma jet

noun

: a stream of very hot ionized plasma
also : a device for producing such a stream

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The corona’s fluffy appearance is caused by short plasma jets called spicules. — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2025 These near-parallel strands seemed to be connecting the swirling lobes at the ends of the galaxy’s two plasma jets to each other. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2020 For over a century, astronomers have puzzled over solar spicules, the millions of plasma jets that cover the sun’s surface like whiskers. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 Nov. 2019 Meanwhile, other matter is channeled to the poles of the black hole, from where it is blasted away as high-energy plasma jets travelling at near-light speeds. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for plasma jet

Word History

First Known Use

1957, in the meaning defined above

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