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ELECTRIC LAMP

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• 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.

• ELECTRIC LAMP (noun)

Sense 1

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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; electric-light bulb; 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)

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