sodium-vapour 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-vapor lamp

   Broaderlamp

Questions about sodium-vapour lamp

What does sodium-vapour lamp mean?

sodium-vapour 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-vapour lamp?

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

sodium-vapour 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.