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minilamp

minilamp noun: a miniature lamp.

Noun

minilamp (plural minilamps)

  1. A miniature lamp.
    • Jay Monroe, an engineer whose wife’s discontent over the strong light he needed for bedtime reading provoked him to invent a high-intensity, low-voltage minilamp whose use spread to desks, jewelers’ worktables, limousines and far beyond, died on June 12 at his home in Sands Point, N.Y. He was 80.2007 July 2, Douglas Martin, “Jay Monroe, 80, Engineer Who Invented Tensor Lamp, Dies”, in New York Times

Forms of minilamp

pluralminilamps

Origin of minilamp

From mini- + lamp.

Questions about minilamp

What does minilamp mean?
Minilamp means a miniature lamp.
What part of speech is minilamp?
Minilamp is a noun.
What is the plural of minilamp?
The plural of minilamp is minilamps.

Words near minilamp in the dictionary

  1. minikitchen
  2. minikitchens
  3. minikits
  4. minilab
  5. minilabs
  6. minilamp
  7. minilamps
  8. minilanguage
  9. minilanguages
  10. minilaparoscopic
  11. minilaparoscopy

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