mercury-vapour lamp

English

Alternative forms

• mercury-vapor lamp

Noun

mercury-vapour lamp (plural mercury-vapour lamps)

1. (British spelling) a gaseous discharge lamp in which the arc discharge takes place in mercury vapour; used for highway illumination and as an industrial source of ultraviolet radiation
   • 1962 June, “The Eastern Region completes the Colchester scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 412:

     By night the carriage yard is illuminated by mercury vapour lamps on 50ft lattice steel towers remotely controlled from the diesel depot.

Translations

a gaseous discharge lamp

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水銀燈／水银灯 (zh) (shuǐyíndēng)

• Finnish: elohopeahöyrylamppu, elohopealamppu
• French: lampe à vapeur de mercure (fr) f
• German: Quecksilberdampflampe (de) f
• Hungarian: higanylámpa, higanygőzlámpa (hu)
• Japanese: 水銀灯 (すいぎんとう, suigintō)
• Polish: lampa rtęciowa f, rtęciówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: lâmpada de mercúrio f, lâmpada de vapor de mercúrio f
• Russian: рту́тная газоразря́дная ла́мпа f (rtútnaja gazorazrjádnaja lámpa)
• Spanish: lámpara de vapor de mercurio f
• Thai: หลอดแสงจันทร์ (lɔ̀ɔt-sɛ̌ɛng-jan), หลอดไฟไอปรอท (lɔ̀ɔt-fai-ai-bpà-rɔ̀ɔt)