electric light
noun1
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.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 83:
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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, […].1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893:
- Derived terms
- electric light bug