electric light

English

Noun

electric light (countable and uncountable, plural electric lights)

  1. Artificial light using electricity as a source of illumination.
    • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 83:
      As late as 1910, only 7 per cent of Londoners had electric light in their homes.
  2. A device producing such light.

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