Lexic.us

Definition of Lamp housing

1. Noun. Housing that holds a lamp (as in a movie projector).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lamp Housing

Literary usage of Lamp housing

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

1. The Gasoline Automobile by Peter Martin Heldt (1918)
"The props attached to the lamp housing shall have bores of 17/32 in., the bores being 1% in. long. The center- line of the hole in the prop shall be not ..."

2. EMF Electrical Year Book by Electrical Trade Publishing Company (1921)
"Still another type provides a socket and mounting therefor in an arc lamp housing, thus adapting the latter for the modern, efficient types of incandescent ..."

3. Selenium Cells by Thomas William Benson (1919)
"The front of the lamp housing has a hole measuring 1 by % inches cut in it on a level with the lamp filament. Two clips cut from spring brass of the shape ..."

4. Automobile Starting, and Lighting by Harold Phillips Manly (1918)
"These small bulbs are often called "dimmer" bulbs or "pilot" bulbs, and may be carried inside of the head lamp housing or in a small extension from some ..."

5. Light's Labour's Lost: Policies for Energy-Efficient Lighting by Paul Waide, Satoshi Tanishima, International Energy Agency (2006)
"The cause of this low utility coefficient is a combination of losses from light being trapped in the luminaire (the lamp housing), light absorption on ..."

6. Illuminating Engineering Practice: Lectures on Illuminating Engineering by University of Pennsylvania, Illuminating Engineering Society (1917)
"Until recently, the discoloration of the lamp housing and supporting fixture arm or pendant by heat and combustion products was a serious drawback in the ..."

7. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"... but of the same general form, as an arc lamp housing. The specific consumption of this type of lamp, including losses in ballast resistance, ..."

8. Transactions of the International Electrical Congress, St. Louis, 1904 by International Electrical Congress (1905)
"... to spring restrained cut-outs, and the freeing of the ballast from restrictions as to size and the necessity for operating within a heated lamp housing. ..."

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