occulting light
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of occulting light
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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An occulting light means that some of the time the light is shut off, and at others it isn't.
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Snaefell Jokul—White occulting light withdrawn for winter.
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Have you ever heard of an occulting light?”
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Rather more than a mile out is a cluster of islets, on one of which, Carn Brâs, stands the Longships lighthouse, built in 1883 to replace one that had been privately erected; it has an occulting light of over seven hundred candle-power, visible at 16 miles.
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The Capella, moving at a rate equal to that of the tide, kept about half a mile from the Isle of Wight shore, with the white, occulting light of the Needles just visible to the north of Cliff End Fort.
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