Light-bulb
noun
1.
an electric light.
noun
1.
a glass bulb containing a gas, such as argon or nitrogen, at low pressure and enclosing a thin metal filament that emits light when an electric current is passed through it Sometimes shortened to bulb
n.
also lightbulb, 1884, from light (n.) + bulb.
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