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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A reusable electric lamp that produces a bright continuous light for photographic illumination.

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  • noun photography A lamp that produces a broad beam of continuous bright light; used to illuminate a photographic subject

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  • noun light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography

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Examples

  • This ctenophore seems to be exhibiting bioluminescence, but what the “lights” actually represent is reflection or refraction of the photoflood lights from rhythmically beating cilia.

    Bloodybelly Comb Jelly 2009

  • I find that the bidirectional lights work well, but without photoflood bulbs I get an unnatural blue tinge - that sends me back to Photoshop.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • I find that the bidirectional lights work well, but without photoflood bulbs I get an unnatural blue tinge - that sends me back to Photoshop.

    Let there be light and buckshot 2008

  • My father built in about 6000 watts of photoflood lighting and 12 planes of glass about 24x36.

    In Glorious Multiplane - 1 Hans Perk 2008

  • The thick cord of an antiquated electric bowl fire shared a power-point with the thinner cord of a photoflood lamp and reflector on a tall metal stand.

    Frost at Christmas Wingfield, R. D. 1984

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