fireball (redirected from Fireballs)

fire·ball  (frbôl)

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.

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fireball

Noun

1. ball-shaped lightning

2. the hot ionized gas at the centre of a nuclear explosion

3. a large bright meteor

4. Slang an energetic person

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	fireball - an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) bolide shooting star, meteor - a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode
	2.	fireball - a highly energetic and indefatigable person ball of fire, human dynamo, powerhouse doer, actor, worker - a person who acts and gets things done; "he's a principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he's a miracle worker" self-starter - an energetic person with unusual initiative
	3.	fireball - a ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning) globe, orb, ball - an object with a spherical shape; "a ball of fire"
	4.	fireball - the luminous center of a nuclear explosion atomic explosion, nuclear explosion - the explosion of an atomic bomb globe, orb, ball - an object with a spherical shape; "a ball of fire"

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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.