carbon arc

1. 1.

   has carbon electrodes

   Synonymscarbon arc lamp

   Broaderarc lamp

   Narrowerklieg light

Questions about carbon arc

What does carbon arc mean?

carbon arc means "has carbon electrodes".

What is another word for carbon arc?

Close synonyms include carbon arc lamp. 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 carbon arc a common word?

carbon arc 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.