Plural of airburst; multiple explosions that occur in the air above targets.
From 'airburst' plus standard English plural '-s,' referring to multiple mid-air explosions.
Scientists studying meteor impacts discovered that when meteorites enter Earth's atmosphere, they often explode as airbursts rather than hitting the ground—the 1908 Tunguska event was an airburst that flattened 80 million trees!
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