Thunderboltname

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  computer-hardwarecomputingengineeringA computer interface standard for connecting devices, combining PCI Express, DisplayPort and DC power in one connector.

thunderboltnoun/ˈθʌndə(ɹ)ˌboʊlt/

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  A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.

  • Our quiuering Lances ſhaking in the aire, / And bullets like Ioues dreadfull Thunderbolts, / Enrolde in flames and fiery ſmoldering miſtes, / Shall threat the Gods more than Cyclopian warres, […]
  • And the sword that had visited Earth from so far away smote like the falling of thunderbolts [...] and the runes in Alveric’s far-travelled sword exulted, and roared at the elf-knight; until in the dark of the wood, amongst branches severed from disenchanted trees, with a blow like that of a thunderbolt riving an oak-tree, Alveric slew him.
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  An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected.

  • News of the actress’s death came as a thunderbolt to her fans.
  • the Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war
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  Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.

  • a thunder-bolt of warre Striking all Nations
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  ball-gamesgameshobbiesA very powerful shot.

  • Substitute Niko Kranjcar's injury-time thunderbolt gave Tottenham a dramatic win over Bolton.
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  biologyhistoryhuman-sciencesA belemnite, or thunderstone.

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  governmentheraldryhobbiesA charge in the form of two joined bundles with four rays of lightning emerging from them, resembling the thunderbolt of Jupiter.

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  A daring or irresistible hero.

thunderboltverb/ˈθʌndə(ɹ)ˌboʊlt/

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  rareTo strike with a thunderbolt.

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  rareTo move swiftly and violently.