elves Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere
  2. noun (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
    gremlin; hob; elf; brownie; pixie; imp; pixy.
  3. noun below 3 kilohertz
    extremely low frequency; ELF.

WordNet

Elves noun
Wordforms
plural of Elf
Definitions

Webster 1913