ment of a direction that all further proceedings shall be stayed, (t. e., that the process may stand,) and it is one of the ways by which a suit may be terminated by an act of the party, as distinguished from a termination of it by judgment, which is the act of the court.
The resulting number will tell you how many miles away you are from where lightning just struck. Five seconds, for example, indicates the lightning struck 1 mile away, and a 10-second gap means the lightning was 2 miles away.
1 If you find out that the lightning is less than a mile away, make sure you find/have shelter immediately. Lightning might strike you.  Due to the way sound travels and how various objects, such as mountains and buildings, interact with sound waves this is not the most reliable way to predict lightning distance.