photoflood

1. 1.

   light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography

   Synonymsfloodfloodlightflood lamp

   Broaderlight

   Part ofphotographic equipment

Other forms of photoflood

plural

photofloods·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about photoflood

What does photoflood mean?

photoflood means "light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography".

How many syllables are in photoflood?

photoflood has 3 syllables: pho-to-flood. The stress falls on "pho".

What is another word for photoflood?

Close synonyms include flood, floodlight, flood 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 photoflood a common word?

photoflood 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.