arc light
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A lamp that produces light by generating an electric arc across an enclosed gas.
- With one, last desperate lurch, the lorry cleared the tracks, disappearing out of the arclights, into the darkness; and then there was silence...
- All five had seen the four wooden targets, thirty feet above their heads, holding the great submarine in place, stark against the glare of the arclight...
- In 1809 Humphry Davy had made the first arclight by attaching a charcoal rod to each terminal of a Volta battery...
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA