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Definition of Searchlight
1. Noun. A light source with reflectors that projects a beam of light in a particular direction.
Definition of Searchlight
1. n. An apparatus for projecting a powerful beam of light of approximately parallel rays, usually devised so that it can be swiveled about.
Definition of Searchlight
1. Noun. A light source that projects a bright beam of light in any direction. ¹
2. Noun. The light from the above source. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Searchlight
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Searchlight
Literary usage of Searchlight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1919)
"By AIEE THE searchlight IN THE US NAVY BY RALPH KELLY ABSTRACT OF PAPER A changed
form of 12-inch incandescent searchlight is suggested which will insure ..."
2. Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House by United States Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations (1912)
"In obtaining searchlight appliances the greatest delay results from securing the
lights, the projectors themselves. The essential elements of these lights ..."
3. The Commission of H.M.S. "Terrible," 1898-1902 by George Crowe (1903)
"This scheme was a searchlight with a "Scott's Flasher" attachment. Another evolution !
The general wired his acceptance of the proffered apparatus, ..."
4. Visual Signaling: Signal Corps, United States Army, 1910 by United States Army. Signal Corps (1910)
"The electric searchlight, when available, can often be successfully employed ...
In signaling with the searchlight the usual method of handling the shaft or ..."
5. The Service of Coast Artillery by Frank Thomas Hines, Franklin Wilmer Ward (1910)
"searchlight Area.—The area of land or water illuminated by a searchlight.
searchlight Observer.—A member of a searchlight detachment equipped with a night ..."
6. Fifty Years in the Royal Navy by Percy Scott (1919)
"I suggested to General Buller that I should mount a searchlight on a truck as I
had done to get communication with Kimberley. He wired—"Yes, as soon as ..."
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