English > electric lamp: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Spanish | lámpara eléctrica |
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| Catalan | llum elèctrica |
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