Illustration of light bulb
- 1 bulb containing gas
- 2 filament
- 3 connecting and supporting wires
- 4 exhaust tube
- 5 screw base
- 6 base contact
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light bulb
noun
variants or lightbulb
: an electric lamp: such as
a
: one in which a filament gives off light when heated to incandescence by an electric current
called also incandescent, incandescent lamp
b
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Branch Librarian Azalea Ebbay notes that one hanging piece evokes moths attracted to a light bulb, an apt metaphor for the library’s mission. 
Dirk Sutro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2022 All the data collected by the spacecraft instruments would be stored on eight-track tape recorders and then sent back to Earth by a 23-watt transmitter—about the power level of a refrigerator light bulb. Tim Folger, Scientific American, 18 June 2022 Make decisions by sliding the game world using Playdate's crank, which in turn guides a pinball to crash into a light bulb. Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2022 One chicken puts off as much heat as a 100-watt light bulb. John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2022 The researchers point out that these empirical results support the existing body of literature showing postal reforms accelerated the innovations of the Gilded Age from the light bulb to the Kodak camera. Camille Squires, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2022 One example is Lewis Latimer, an inventor and draftsman best known for his contributions to the patenting of the light bulb and the telephone. Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2022 If Google is a good indicator of public opinion, then the answer would be a light bulb. Csaba Toth, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022 And when Abilene's jittery, bright-eyed brother (Boyd Holbrook) insists that her overdose was not an accident but a coverup for murder, a light bulb pings. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 29 July 2022 See More
Dirk Sutro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2022 All the data collected by the spacecraft instruments would be stored on eight-track tape recorders and then sent back to Earth by a 23-watt transmitter—about the power level of a refrigerator light bulb. Tim Folger, Scientific American, 18 June 2022 Make decisions by sliding the game world using Playdate's crank, which in turn guides a pinball to crash into a light bulb. Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2022 One chicken puts off as much heat as a 100-watt light bulb. John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2022 The researchers point out that these empirical results support the existing body of literature showing postal reforms accelerated the innovations of the Gilded Age from the light bulb to the Kodak camera. Camille Squires, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2022 One example is Lewis Latimer, an inventor and draftsman best known for his contributions to the patenting of the light bulb and the telephone. Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2022 If Google is a good indicator of public opinion, then the answer would be a light bulb. Csaba Toth, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022 And when Abilene's jittery, bright-eyed brother (Boyd Holbrook) insists that her overdose was not an accident but a coverup for murder, a light bulb pings. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 29 July 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1885, in the meaning defined above
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