sodium-vapor lamp

1. 1.

   lamp in which an electric current passed through a tube of sodium vapor makes a yellow light; used is street lighting

   Synonymssodium-vapour lamp

   Broaderlamp

Questions about sodium-vapor lamp

What does sodium-vapor lamp mean?

sodium-vapor lamp means "lamp in which an electric current passed through a tube of sodium vapor makes a yellow light; used is street lighting".

What is another word for sodium-vapor lamp?

Close synonyms include sodium-vapour 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 sodium-vapor lamp a common word?

sodium-vapor 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.