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ELECTRIC LAMP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A lamp powered by electricity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("electric lamp" is a kind of...):
lamp (an artificial source of visible illumination)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electric lamp"):
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)
bulb; electric-light bulb; electric light; incandescent lamp; light bulb; lightbulb (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)
