calcium light

1. 1.

   a lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting

   Synonymslimelight

   Broaderlamp

   Part oftheater light

Questions about calcium light

What does calcium light mean?

calcium light means "a lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting".

What is another word for calcium light?

Close synonyms include limelight. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calcium light a common word?

calcium light is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.