electronic flash

[ ih-lek-tron-ik flash, ee-lek- ]
nounPhotography.

  1. a flash lamp, usually attached to a camera or housed within a camera body, that produces brilliant flashes of light by the discharge of current through a gas-filled tube.

Origin of electronic flash

1
First recorded in 1945–50
  • Also called speed light, speed flash [speed-flash], /ˈspid ˌflæʃ/, flashtube, speed lamp [speed-lamp] /ˈspid ˌlæmp/ .

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British Dictionary definitions for electronic flash

electronic flash
noun

  1. photog an electronic device for producing a very bright flash of light by means of an electric discharge in a gas-filled tube

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