electric light en · NOUN
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Artificial light using electricity as a source of illumination.
As late as 1910, only 7 per cent of Londoners had electric light in their homes.
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 83:
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(countable, uncountable) A device producing such light: an electric lightbulb or the lamp or light fixture that uses it.
The electric light system at Paddington is a very large one. There are 101 of these big lights of 2.000 candle power each, 4,000 of 25, and 23 of 100 candle power respectively, […].
1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| electric lights | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
daylight · moonbeam · sunlight · starbeam · sunbeam · starlight · moonlight · gaslight · natural light
Deriveds
Hypernyms
EMR · radiation · energy · light · lamplight · electromagnetic radiation