ELECTRIC LAMP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electric lamp mean? 

• ELECTRIC LAMP (noun)
  The noun ELECTRIC LAMP has 1 sense:

1. a lamp powered by electricity

  Familiarity information: ELECTRIC LAMP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTRIC LAMP (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)

 Context examples 

The men were scared every time we turned our electric lamp on them, and fell on their knees and prayed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I took out the list of Professor Challenger's exploits, and I read it over under the electric lamp.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)