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fountain lamp

noun

Definitions

  1. A lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir.

    • The oil will be maintained at an uniform level in the burner of this lamp as perfectly as it is in the cocmmon fountain lamp, without being open to the objection against that lamp, of casting a shadow.
    • The flame generally used in reflectors is from an Argand fountain lamp, the wick of which is one inch in diameter.

  2. A lamp that consists of a large number of fiber optic tubes that mimic the spray of water…

    A lamp that consists of a large number of fiber optic tubes that mimic the spray of water from a fountain.

    • A familiar application is the fountain lamp that has several hundred fibers spraying out of the top.

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