arclight
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Noun[edit]
arclight (plural arclights)
- A lamp that produces light by generating an electric arc across an enclosed gas.
- 1987, Martin Gilbert, The Holocaust:
- With one, last desperate lurch, the lorry cleared the tracks, disappearing out of the arclights, into the darkness; and then there was silence...
- 1998, Patrick Robinson, Nimitz Class:
- All five had seen the four wooden targets, thirty feet above their heads, holding the great submarine in place, stark against the glare of the arclight...
- 2000, James Burke, The Knowledge Web:
- In 1809 Humphry Davy had made the first arclight by attaching a charcoal rod to each terminal of a Volta battery...