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noun Photography.

a flash lamp, usually attached to a camera or housed within the camera body, that produces brilliant flashes of light by the discharge of current through a gas-filled tube.

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Also called flashtube.

Origin of electronic flash

First recorded in 1945–50

Words nearby electronic flash

electronic data processing, electronic editing, electronic engineering, electronic fetal monitor, electronic file cabinet, electronic flash, electronic flight information systems, electronic footprint, electronic funds transfer, electronic funds transfer at point of sale, electronic game

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The idea that January 1st initiates a period of new beginning is not a flash of Hallmark brilliance.
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After the captain made the call to abandon ship, 150 people were able to escape on lifeboats lowered by electronic arms.
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Privacy advocates such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation say everyone should use it.
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Afterward, you can actually see her young career flash before her eyes as she makes a kind of puffed up blowfish face.
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In a flash he deflects the shot, with the speed of instinct, right past the goalkeeper.
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The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
"A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
If those jaspers flash any part of the roll in the Territory before snowfall, I'll get them.
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He devoured it whole with a kind of visual gulp—a flash; the entire meaning first, then lines, then separate words.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood

British Dictionary definitions for electronic flash

electronic flash

noun

photog an electronic device for producing a very bright flash of light by means of an electric discharge in a gas-filled tube

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