electronic flash

[ih-lek-tron-ik flash, ee-lek-]

noun

Photography.

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

electronic flash

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of electronic flash¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

The opening ceremony in the packed 80,000-seat Olympic Sports Center Stadium in Hangzhou featured electronic flash, 3D animations and a virtual torchbearer.

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Instead, the high-tech games — billed of course as “green games” — offered electronic flash, 3D animations and a virtual torchbearer.

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Instead, the high-tech games - billed of course as “green games” - offered electronic flash, three-D animations, and a virtual torchbearer.

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His Electronic Flash, a battery-powered device able to carry its own energy supply and integrated into the camera body, began to dominate the consumer market in the late 1960s.

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However, research by the Unversity of Cambridge’s Martin Evans on assessing the harm done by flash photography suggests “use of electronic flash by the public poses negligible danger to most museum exhibits.”

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