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lighting rig

lighting rig noun: the infrastructure for providing stage lighting.

Noun

lighting rig (plural lighting rigs)

  1. The infrastructure for providing stage lighting.
    • At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.1999, Des Lyver, Graham Swainson, Basics of Video Lighting, page 103
    • The economy of space is a marvel; the studio may seem cluttered, a kind of Middle-earthian junkyard ringed by the stalks of lighting rigs, but one glance into the monitor and there is Théoden’s massive throne room, carved straight out of the pages of Tolkien’s vast antiquity.2005, Andrew O’Hehir, “The Fellowship of the Ring”, in Peter Jackson: From Gore to Mordor, Plexus, →ISBN, page 138

Forms of lighting rig

plurallighting rigs

Questions about lighting rig

What does lighting rig mean?
Lighting rig means the infrastructure for providing stage lighting.
What part of speech is lighting rig?
Lighting rig is a noun.
What is the plural of lighting rig?
The plural of lighting rig is lighting rigs.

Words near lighting rig in the dictionary

  1. lighting into
  2. lighting off
  3. lighting on
  4. lighting one's hair on fire
  5. lighting out
  6. lighting rig
  7. lighting rigs
  8. lighting someone's ass up
  9. lighting technician
  10. lighting technicians
  11. lighting the blue touchpaper

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