How do double rainbows form? Scientists at University of California San Diego have explained that extra-large droplets, known as burgeroids because of their burger-like shape, have the effect of creating a double rainbow. Burgeroids, all the way...
drain-bow n.— «“Drain-bows” (Rainbow parlance for slackers) who panhandled and shoplifted.» —“Rainbows came, camped, prayed, left” by Tom Morton Star Tribune (Jackson Hole, Wyoming) Dec. 29, 2008...
balloon glow n.— «The race features a “balloon glow” spectacular the evening before. The competing balloons set up before sunset, blowing their torches up into the expanded balloons just as night falls while still sitting on...
dichro n.— «Dorothy offered to teach him and LuAnn how to make dichroic glass jewelry.…They will be showing their dichro jewelry—as it’s known in industry speak.…Using all the colors of the rainbow and then some, LuAnn and Pat...
rainbow cracking n.— «The tables—totaling 500GB— form the core data of a technique known as rainbow cracking, which uses vast dictionaries of data to let anyone reverse the process of creating hashes—the statistically unique codes that...
rainbow table n.— «The tables—totaling 500GB— form the core data of a technique known as rainbow cracking, which uses vast dictionaries of data to let anyone reverse the process of creating hashes—the statistically unique codes that...