tungsten lamp

American  

noun

1. an incandescent electric lamp in which the filament is made of tungsten.

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tungsten lamp British  

noun

1. a lamp in which light is produced by a tungsten filament heated to incandescence by an electric current. The glass bulb enclosing the filament contains a low pressure of inert gas, usually argon. Sometimes small amounts of a halogen, such as iodine, are added to improve the intensity ( tungsten-halogen lamp )

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tungsten lamp Scientific  

1. An incandescent electric lamp having a tungsten filament.

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Etymology

Origin of tungsten lamp

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

They learned that the big lights were a new type of tungsten lamp filled with nitrogen gas which made them burn three times as bright as other lamps.

From The Boy Scout Fire Fighters by Crump, Irving

There are two styles in common use, the carbon and the tungsten lamp.

From Electricity for the farm Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine by Anderson, Frederick Irving

The luminous efficiency of the tungsten lamp equipped with such a tinted bulb is still about twice as great as that of the carbon-filament lamp.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Luckiesh, Matthew

The filament is capable of subdivision, with the result that such lamps vary from the minutest spark of the smallest miniature lamp to the enormous output of the largest gas-filled tungsten lamp.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Luckiesh, Matthew

Ordinary arc lamps, and even flame arc lamps, are being displaced by the modern high-candle-power gas-filled tungsten lamp.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various