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n. (pilot light English)
Usage examples of "pilot lights".
Right now, a few seconds before ignition, four small pre-burners inside that chamber - pilot lights - had lit up, providing a flame at the points where the sprays of lox and kerosene from the jnjector plate hit each other.
Even more disturbing was the round grate some two and a half meters across beneath her, through which she could see dozens of tiny, blue flames burning like pilot lights.
The lights along the roof of the tunnel were kept on night and day, and in all the cabins there were pilot lights that gave out a faint blue radiance, like those in the sleepers of International Pullman cars.
Rudy began to shut his consoles down, the tiny pilot lights blinking out one by one.
It was barely illuminated by reddish pilot lights glimmering on the lift booth.
Its flat, dark surface reflected the rest of sickbay, with its neat rows of surgical instruments lined up for use and its test equipment waiting, pilot lights blinking on standby.
The detective said whoever set the homemade dynamite could've turned on the gas and blown out the pilot lights on the stove days before the explosion took place.