discharge lamp

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   a lamp that generates light by a discharge between two electrodes in a gas

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Questions about discharge lamp

What does discharge lamp mean?

discharge lamp means "a lamp that generates light by a discharge between two electrodes in a gas".

Is discharge lamp a common word?

discharge lamp 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.