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lighting

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Etymology

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Fromlight +‎-ing.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lighting (countable anduncountable,plurallightings)

  1. Theequipment used to provideillumination; the illumination so provided.
    Synonyms:illumination,light source,light
    • 1951 April, “Notes and News: Improvements at Kyle of Lochalsh”, inRailway Magazine, number600, page281:
      The acetylene gaslighting in the station offices and platforms at Kyle of Lochalsh recently has been replaced by electriclighting.
    • 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8847:
      The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificiallighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
  2. The act ofactivating such equipment, or ofigniting aflame etc.
    • 2012, Andrew Pessin,Uncommon Sense, page142:
      We've observed plenty of strikings followed bylightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?
  3. (dated) The process ofannealingmetals.[1]

Derived terms

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Translations

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equipment, illumination
activating lights or igniting a flame

Verb

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lighting

  1. presentparticiple andgerund oflight

References

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  1. ^“lighting”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

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