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n. (arc lamp English)
Usage examples of "arc lamps".
They were the last to descend, and when they stood together at the bottom of the ladder, Balan and the other diver hefted the ladder between them, and they trudged through the restless, distressed silt to where the arc lamps had been re-sited near the generators and the sleds on which they had brought down their equipment.
Two big overhead arc lamps burned by the heavily-barred entrance gates.
Luck was with me, for the sound-a grating of metal on metal and a soft squeal of unoiled hinges-came from directly in front of me, from behind the Tilt-a-Whirl, where trucks and unlit arc lamps and generators and other pieces of equipment were lined up along the middle of the midway, with rides on both sides.
The sight of the bay inside loomed larger, ablaze with arc lamps, provoking a twinge of nervousness inside her.
The dock was lit with big overhead arc lamps and appeared deserted of life.
At the crossroad ahead, there was a German patrol, and a couple of arc lamps.
Four arc lamps, much smaller than the theatrical lamps Heather had been using, provided power for it.
They were on the roof, the darkness held at bay by the glare of arc lamps.
It was night when he passed one of the immense batteries of artillery, and the garish sight of the huge black mortars and cannons pointed at the night sky, the tiny figures scurrying about under the arc lamps servicing them, holding hands to their cars (Bai did too) before they went off, made it clear to him yet again that they must all have been dragged into the next realm and got caught in a war of asuras, a titanic conflict in which humans were as ants, crushed under the wheels of the asuras' superhuman machines.
The Bo'sun arrived on the bridge, a bridge now over-illuminated with two garish arc lamps, to find Ferguson and Curran already there, with enough plywood of various shapes and sizes to build a modest hut.