electric-discharge lamp

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   an electric lamp in which the light comes from an electric discharge between two electrodes in a glass tube

   Synonymsgas-discharge lamp

   Broaderelectric lamp

Questions about electric-discharge lamp

What does electric-discharge lamp mean?

electric-discharge lamp means "an electric lamp in which the light comes from an electric discharge between two electrodes in a glass tube".

What is another word for electric-discharge lamp?

Close synonyms include gas-discharge 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 electric-discharge lamp a common word?

electric-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.