lightbulb
Noun
Meaning
electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
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Hypernyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
Although lightbulb jokes tend to be derogatory in tone (e.
At that performance, Carte stepped on stage and broke a glowing lightbulb before the audience to demonstrate the safety of the new technology.
A lightbulb went off when my son was talking about the Yu-Gi-Oh tournament he's playing in this weekend: trading cards.
Filament of a 200-watt incandescent lightbulb highly magnified Filament of a burnt-out 50-watt incandescent lightbulb in an SEM in stereoscopic mode, presented as an anaglyph image 3D red cyan glasses are recommended to view this image correctly.
Filament of a 50-watt incandescent lightbulb in an SEM in stereoscopic mode, presented as an anaglyph image 3D red cyan glasses are recommended to view this image correctly.
All the way back in the 1930’s, a quest for the optimal lighting in factories uncovered that no one type of lightbulb led workers to have more productive shifts.