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Arc light

noun

A lamp that produces light when electric current flows across the gap between two electrodes. Synonym: arc lamp.

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"Arc light" Quotes from Famous Books

... clumsy and inefficient types then in use. In two months, Brush had made a dynamo so perfect in every way that it was running until taken to the Chicago Exposition, in 1893. Six months more of experimenting resulted in the Brush arc light, and in 1879 the Brush Electric Company was organized. A year later, the first Brush lights were installed in New York City, and now there is scarcely a town in the country which does not ...

— American Men of Mind • Burton E. Stevenson

... been written for you, Sweetness. That's what you are, Up to Snuff, eh, Queenie?" He leaned closer, and above his tall, narrow collar dull red flowed beneath the sallow, and his long white teeth and slick-brushed hair shone in the arc light. "Eh, Queenie?" ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

Words linked to "Arc light" : carbon arc, carbon arc lamp, electric lamp