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fountain lamps

fountain lamps is the plural of fountain lamp.

Meaning of fountain lamp

Noun

fountain lamp (plural fountain lamps)

  1. (historical) A lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir.
    • The oil will be maintained at an uniform level in the burner of this lamp as perfectly as it is in the cocmmon fountain lamp, without being open to the objection against that lamp, of casting a shadow.1841 May 29, N. N. L., “Description of a plan for maintaining the oil of a lamp at a uniform level.”, in Mechanics' Magazine, number 929, page 408
  2. A lamp that consists of a large number of fiber optic tubes that mimic the spray of water from a fountain.
    • A familiar application is the fountain lamp that has several hundred fibers spraying out of the top.1989, Ron Whittaker, Video Field Production, page 349

Questions about fountain lamps

What is fountain lamps the plural of?
Fountain lamps is the plural of fountain lamp.

Words near fountain lamps in the dictionary

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  2. fountain drinks
  3. Fountain Hills
  4. Fountain Inn
  5. fountain lamp
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  9. fountain pen
  10. fountain pens
  11. fountain shell

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