Yehudi lights
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English
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Principle_of_Yehudi_Lights_with_Avenger_head-on_view.jpg/220px-Principle_of_Yehudi_Lights_with_Avenger_head-on_view.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Developed, in part, by the US Navy's "Project Yehudi" from 1943 onwards. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “But who/what was Yehudi? Is it an eponym?”)
Noun
[edit]Yehudi lights pl (plural only)
- (rare) Lights placed under aeroplanes that raise their brightness to the same level as that of the sky, as a form of camouflage.