Word.ws English Dictionary

mercury-vapour lamps

mercury-vapour lamps is the plural of mercury-vapour lamp.

Meaning of mercury-vapour lamp

Noun

mercury-vapour lamp (plural mercury-vapour lamps)

  1. (UK) a gaseous discharge lamp in which the arc discharge takes place in mercury vapour; used for highway illumination and as an industrial source of ultraviolet radiation
    • By night the carriage yard is illuminated by mercury vapour lamps on 50ft lattice steel towers remotely controlled from the diesel depot.1962 June, “The Eastern Region completes the Colchester scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 412

Questions about mercury-vapour lamps

What is mercury-vapour lamps the plural of?
Mercury-vapour lamps is the plural of mercury-vapour lamp.

Words near mercury-vapour lamps in the dictionary

  1. Mercury's staffs
  2. mercury(I) iodide
  3. mercury-vapor lamp
  4. mercury-vapor lamps
  5. mercury-vapour lamp
  6. mercury-vapour lamps
  7. mercurying
  8. mercuryless
  9. mercuryquake
  10. mercuryquakes
  11. Mercutian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mercury-vapour lamps (page history and authors); mercury-vapour lamp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mercury-vapour lamps.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mercury-vapour_lamps. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.