Definitions for arc lamp
arc lamp

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1. arc lamp, arc lightnoun

   a lamp that produces light when electric current flows across the gap between two electrodes

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1. arc lampnoun

   An electric arc arranged so as to produce useful light.

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1. Arc lamp

   An arc lamp or arc light is a lamp that produces light by an electric arc (also called a voltaic arc). The carbon arc light, which consists of an arc between carbon electrodes in air, invented by Humphry Davy in the first decade of the 1800s, was the first practical electric light. It was widely used starting in the 1870s for street and large building lighting until it was superseded by the incandescent light in the early 20th century. It continued in use in more specialized applications where a high intensity point light source was needed, such as searchlights and movie projectors until after World War II. The carbon arc lamp is now obsolete for most of these purposes, but it is still used as a source of high intensity ultraviolet light. The term is now used for gas discharge lamps, which produce light by an arc between metal electrodes through a gas in a glass bulb. The common fluorescent lamp is a low-pressure mercury arc lamp. The xenon arc lamp, which produces a high intensity white light, is now used in many of the applications which formerly used the carbon arc, such as movie projectors and searchlights.

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1. arc lamp

   An arc lamp is a type of electric light that uses an electrical discharge between two electrodes, creating an intense light due to the heat from the resulting plasma. These lamps have been used historically for large-scale lighting such as street lights and spotlighting. The arc in the lamp is created by an electric current passing through the ionized gas between the two electrodes.

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1. Arc lamp

   "Arc lamp" or "arc light" is the general term for a class of lamps that produce light by an electric arc. The lamp consists of two electrodes, first made from carbon but typically made today of tungsten, which are separated by a gas. The type of lamp is often named by the gas contained in the bulb; including neon, argon, xenon, krypton, sodium, metal halide, and mercury, or by the type of electrode as in carbon-arc lamps. The common fluorescent lamp is a low-pressure mercury arc lamp.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of arc lamp in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

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   The numerical value of arc lamp in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Arc_Lamp
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Lamp
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5. ^ Wikidata
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