Meanings
plural electric lights
- countableuncountableArtificial 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 - countableuncountableA 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
Synonyms & antonyms
nounelectric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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