Definitions

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  • noun A lamp that produces light by generating an electric arc across an enclosed gas.

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Examples

  • I can't see how this can't appeal to a larger audience but you can guarantee I'll be going to the embarcadero on the 16th! thes daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn i want to see the rest jason b ok that was weak ... because now ive got an even bigger mad on to see this film. ill see it at the arclight or the shattuck on the 16th.

    First Five Minutes of Exit Through The Gift Shop - Peter’s Favorite Movie of Sundance 2010 | /Film 2010

  • On the hill now, eight arclight cannons had powered up.

    365 tomorrows » 2007 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007

  • Then it would be AWESOME and make billions! marvin if it means anything, but arclight has DRAMATICALLY increased the number of shows in the week ahead. i cant remember when was the last time arclight had so many shows for one movie, and have already sold out some dome shows

    Box Office Tracking: Star Trek Could Reach $65M for 4 Days! Easily Biggest Trek Opening Ever! | /Film 2009

  • Tag liked to give names to his favourite units and weapons, and the massive arclight particle projector cannon unfolding from the lead tocktank was the pride of his army.

    365 tomorrows » 2007 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007

  • In a showwindow two sallow windowdressers in their shirtsleeves are bringing out a dummy girl in a red evening dress, at a corner welders in masks lean into sheets of blue flame repairing a cartrack, a few drunk bums shamble along, a sad streetwalker fidgets under an arclight.

    U.S.A. 2007

  • In a showwindow two sallow windowdressers in their shirtsleeves are bringing out a dummy girl in a red evening dress, at a corner welders in masks lean into sheets of blue flame repairing a cartrack, a few drunk bums shamble along, a sad streetwalker fidgets under an arclight.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • (I love that. so dorky ...) ps -- saw your pals XB and SC leaving the arclight friday night.

    bank holidays 2006

  • The arclight went off; the stretch of roadway went dark.

    The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988

  • An arclight was shining down on the abandoned Pontiac; Mike Breuning was sitting on the hood of an LAPD unmarked, watching a print man dust for latents.

    The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988

  • Bob and Hugh stopped short under a large maple tree whose trunk cast a shadow affording ample protection from a nearby arclight.

    Bob Cook and the German Spy Paul Greene Tomlinson

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