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Flashbulb

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A glass bulb filled with finely shredded aluminum or magnesium foil that is ignited by electricity to produce a short-duration high-intensity light flash for taking photographs. Also called photoflash.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A glass bulb, filled with finely shredded magnesium, that emitted a short, intense flash of light when ignited by electricity; could be used only once

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. a lamp for providing intense momentary light to take a photograph.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph

Word Usage

"Flashbangs produced an incredibly bright light—approximately two million candela, which even with eyes closed would cause a bleaching of the rhodopsin, the visual purple in the eye, creating the spots and temporary blindness most people have experienced and referred to as the flashbulb effect."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

photographic equipment lamp

Cross Reference

flashgun

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

flash photoflash flash lamp flashgun

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