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elec·tric light

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. light bulb, lightbulb, bulb, incandescent lamp, electric light, electric-light bulbnoun

    electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity

Wikipedia

  1. electric light

    Electric light is an artificial light source powered by electricity.

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  1. electric light

    An electric light is a device that produces visible light by using electrical energy. This is mainly achieved through the processes of incandescence (in which an electric current passes through a filament, causing it to glow and produce light) or fluorescence (which uses electric current to excite gas-filled tubes that emit light). Devices such as light bulbs, fluorescent tubes, and LED lamps are examples of electric lights. They are primarily used for illumination in homes, offices, streets, and various other settings.

Wikidata

  1. Electric light

    An electric light is a device that produces light by the flow of electric current. It is the most common form of artificial lighting and is essential to modern society, providing interior lighting for buildings and exterior light for evening and nighttime activities. Most electric lighting is powered by centrally generated electric power, but lighting may also be powered by mobile or standby electric generators or battery systems. Battery-powered lights, usually called "flashlights" or "torches", are used for portability and as backups when the main lights fail. The two main families of electric light are incandescent lamps, which produce light by a filament heated white-hot by electric current, and gas-discharge lamps, which produce light by an electric arc through a gas. The energy efficiency of electric lighting has increased radically since the first demonstration of arc lamps and the incandescent light bulb of the 19th century. Modern electric light sources come in a profusion of types and sizes adapted to a myriad of applications.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Electric Light

    a brilliant white light due to positive and negative currents rushing together between two points of carbon or (the "incandescent" light) to the intense heat in a solid body, caused by an electric current passing through it.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. electric light

    An intense light produced by passing an electric current between points of carbon forming electrodes of the circuit. There are many forms of the apparatus. It will be extensively used in future wars for lighting harbor channels, approaches to forts, etc.

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  1. electric light

    Read the full text of the Electric Light poem by James McIntyre on the Poetry.com website.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of electric light in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of electric light in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of electric light in a Sentence

  1. Napoleon Hill:

    Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

  2. Marshall McLuhan:

    Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

  3. Newt Gingrich:

    If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened.


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