| NOUN | artifact | electric lamp | a lamp powered by electricity |
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| Meaning | A lamp powered by electricity. | |
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| Narrower | arc lamp, arc light | A lamp that produces light when electric current flows across the gap between two electrodes |
| electric-discharge lamp, gas-discharge lamp | An electric lamp in which the light comes from an electric discharge between two electrodes in a glass tube | |
| flashlight, torch | A small portable battery-powered electric lamp | |
| light bulb, lightbulb, bulb, incandescent lamp, electric light, electric-light bulb | electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity | |
| slit lamp | (ophthalmology) a lamp that emits a narrow but intense beam of light that enables an ophthalmologist, using a microscope, to view the retina and optic nerve | |
| Broader | lamp | An artificial source of visible illumination |
| Spanish | lámpara eléctrica | |
| Catalan | llum elèctrica | |
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