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arc lights

arc lights is the plural of arc light.

Meaning of arc light

Noun

arc light (plural arc lights)

  1. A lamp that produces light by generating an electric arc across an enclosed gas.
    • With one, last desperate lurch, the lorry cleared the tracks, disappearing out of the arclights, into the darkness; and then there was silence...1987, Martin Gilbert, The Holocaust

Questions about arc lights

What is arc lights the plural of?
Arc lights is the plural of arc light.

Words near arc lights in the dictionary

  1. arc lamp
  2. arc lamps
  3. arc length
  4. arc lengths
  5. arc light
  6. arc lights
  7. arc minute
  8. arc minutes
  9. arc of history
  10. arc resistance
  11. arc secant

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