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flash lamp

American

Or flashlamp

noun

Photography.

a lamp for providing momentary illumination of the subject of a photograph.

Etymology

Origin of flash lamp

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

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A conductor appears with a flash lamp and lights their way.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2022

The Flashcube’s grandmother, the flash lamp, carried an even greater risk of violence.

From Slate • Dec. 21, 2021

Invented in 1960, lasers use an external "pump," such as a flash lamp, to excite electrons within the atoms of a lasing material—usually a gas, crystal, or semiconductor.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 24, 2018

It used a pulsed high-powered flash lamp and a ruby rod to produce red light.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Tom Reade had really intended to leave the flash lamp with his chum, but he forgot to do so, and, as he jogged steadily along over the wall he threw the light ahead of him.

From The Young Engineers on the Gulf Or, The Dread Mystery of the Million Dollar Breakwater by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

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