NOUN
- a lamp that produces light when electric current flows across the gap between two electrodes
How To Use arc light In A Sentence
- Arc lights and packed ballroom meant profuse sweating, not only for the four contenders for the grand silver bowl but everyone present there.
- In 1880, arc lights were mounted on huge towers in Wabash, Indiana, illuminating the entire city.
- The powerful arc lights had made the small space quite hot and stuffy. A Channel of Peace
- The most important of these results consisted in this, that the electromotive force produced in a "shunt-wound machine," as it was called, increased with the external resistance, whereby the great fluctuations formerly inseparable from electric arc lighting could be obviated, and thus, by the double means of exciting the electro-magnets, still greater uniformity of current was attainable. Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
- The arc lights stopped me seeing anything other than a shapeless, heaving mass. Times, Sunday Times
- Arc lights affixed to a low equipment building throw harsh shadows across her face.
- The powerful arc lights had made the small space quite hot and stuffy. A Channel of Peace
- The makeup of the arc light sensor, physical model arc light sensing and signal characteristics, discussed.
- The arc lights stopped me seeing anything other than a shapeless, heaving mass. Times, Sunday Times
- Searching for a way to create an arc light for use on AC networks, Tesla now found a new fundamental ideal on which to focus: high-frequency electrical phenomena.
