electric light
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English
Noun
electric light (countable and uncountable, plural electric lights)
- Artificial light using electricity as a source of illumination.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 83:
- As late as 1910, only 7 per cent of Londoners had electric light in their homes.
- A device producing such light.
- 1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893:
- 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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References
- “electric light”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.