2. Noun. (dated) A battery or cell of size AA, size AAA, or size N.Howard G. McEntree, “Clever New Gadgets Run on Flashlight Batteries”, in ''Popular Science'', Volume 174, Number 3 (March 1959), [ page 132]. ¹
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Definition of Penlite
1. penlight [n -S] - See also: penlight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Penlite
Literary usage of Penlite
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1. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, James Dwight Dana (1877)
"... constitutes concretionary deposits about the Iceland and Yellowstone (penlite)
geysers, presenting white or grayish, porous, stalactitic, filamentous, ..."
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