electric light

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electric light

noun electric lights

  1. countable, uncountable Artificial light using electricity as a source of illumination. As late as 1910, only 7 per cent of Londoners had electric light in their homes.
  2. countable, uncountable A device producing such light: an electric lightbulb or the lamp or light fixture that uses it. The electric light system at Paddington is a very large one. There are 101 of these big lights of 2.000 candle power each, 4,000 of 25, and 23 of 100 candle power respectively, […].

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@misc{electric_light_2026,
  title = {electric light},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/electric%20light},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}