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arclight

arclight is the alternative form 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

Forms of arclight

pluralarclights

Questions about arclight

What is arclight the alternative form of?
Arclight is the alternative form of arc light.

Words near arclight in the dictionary

  1. arcking
  2. arclength
  3. arclengths
  4. arclet
  5. arclets
  6. arclight
  7. arclights
  8. arclike
  9. arcmin
  10. arcmins
  11. arcminute

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