infrared lamp

1. 1.

   electric heater consisting of a high-power incandescent lamp that emits infrared radiation

   “the bathroom could be warmed by an infrared lamp”

   Synonymsheat lamp

   Broaderelectric heater

Questions about infrared lamp

What does infrared lamp mean?

infrared lamp means "electric heater consisting of a high-power incandescent lamp that emits infrared radiation".

What is another word for infrared lamp?

Close synonyms include heat 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 infrared lamp a common word?

infrared 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.