CARBON ARC

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Has carbon electrodes

Synonyms:

carbon arc; carbon arc lamp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("carbon arc" is a kind of...):

arc lamp; arc light (a lamp that produces light when electric current flows across the gap between two electrodes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carbon arc"):

klieg light (carbon arc lamp that emits an intense light used in producing films)

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