English Explanatory Dictionary

Aldis lamp

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of signal lamp, a visual signalling device used to transmit messages, typically in Morse code.

Word forms

Aldis lamp Aldis lamps

Etymology

After its British inventor, Arthur Cyril Webb Aldis (1878–1953).

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