arc light
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.18 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A lamp that produces light by generating an electric arc across an enclosed gas.
Example Sentences
- "With one, last desperate lurch, the lorry cleared the tracks, disappearing out of the arclights, into the darkness; and then there was silence..."
- "All five had seen the four wooden targets, thirty feet above their heads, holding the great submarine in place, stark against the glare of the arclight..."
- "In 1809 Humphry Davy had made the first arclight by attaching a charcoal rod to each terminal of a Volta battery..."