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arc lamp en · NOUN

Meanings

1. An electric arc arranged so as to produce useful light.
   • The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps. 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
   • This led him to the station; and the square in front of it, vivid with arc-lamps, noisy with the yellow trams that seemed to cross it in all directions, made him laugh aloud with joy. 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 40, in Of Human Bondage:

Forms

Synonyms

arclight

Translations (8)

sv båglampa (an electric arc arranged so as to produce useful light) · ja アーク灯 (an electric arc arranged so as to produce useful light) · nl booglamp (an electric arc arranged so as to produce useful light) · da kulbuelampe (an electric arc arranged so as to produce useful light) · gv arc-lostan (an electric arc arranged so as to produce useful light) · ga arclampa (an electric arc arranged so as to produce useful light) · da buelampe (an electric arc arranged so as to produce useful light) · fi kaarilamppu (an electric arc arranged so as to produce useful light)