Definition of Flash lamp

1. Noun. A lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph.

Exact synonyms: Flash, Flash Bulb, Flashbulb, Flashgun, Photoflash
Group relationships: Flash Camera
Generic synonyms: Lamp, Photographic Equipment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flash Lamp

flash camera
flash card
flash cards
flash dispersal
flash drive
flash drives
flash evaporator
flash fiction
flash fictions
flash flood
flash floods
flash frame
flash frames
flash in the pan
flash keratoconjunctivitis
flash lamp (current term)
flash lock
flash locks
flash memory
flash method
flash mob
flash mobber
flash mobs
flash photography
flash point
flash points
flash suppressor
flash welding
flashback
flashbacks

Literary usage of Flash lamp

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Annual of Photography (1909)
"EAGLE Jr. flash lamp Intended for Home Portraiture The Eagle flash lamp outfit complete, including lamp, stand, blue umbrella, bulb and 15 feet tubing, ..."

2. International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin and American Process by Frederick J Harrison, W I Scandlin (1899)
"MAGNESIUM flash lamp. By Manly Miles, MD, FRMS, Lansing, Mich. The frequent references to the magnesium flash light in the literature of photography, ..."

3. How to Make Photographs: And a Descriptive Catalogue of Materials for the by Scovill and Adams Co., New York (1892)
"... THE STANDARD flash lamp. PATENTED. This lamp gives a continuous or intermitting flash, and having an Argand flame box insures the complete consumption ..."

4. The American Amateur Photographer (1901)
"We have no hesitation in recommending the "Spred-Lite" flash lamp as a thoroughly practical instrument, and one that gives more actinic action for a given ..."

5. The Electrical Engineer (1890)
"A NEW FLASH-LAMP FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. To those of our readers who have experienced difficulties in photographing machinery under unfavourable conditions of ..."

6. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1913)
"Far preferable is. some form of flash lamp, which allows of the exposure being made instantaneously, eg, the Agfa flash lamp. Those who do not wish to go to ..."

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