Usually means: Gas-discharge lamp emitting ultraviolet light.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. mercury-vapor lamp: Merriam-Webster
  2. mercury-vapor lamp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. mercury-vapor lamp: Vocabulary.com
  4. mercury-vapor lamp: Wiktionary
  5. mercury-vapor lamp: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. mercury-vapor lamp: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. mercury-vapor lamp: Dictionary.com
  8. Mercury-vapor lamp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. mercury-vapor lamp: Rhymezone
  10. mercury-vapor lamp: FreeDictionary.org
  11. mercury-vapor lamp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. mercury-vapor lamp: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. mercury-vapor lamp: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mercury-vapor lamp: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See mercury-vapor_lamps as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Mercury-vapor lamp)

noun:  (American spelling) Alternative spelling of mercury-vapour lamp [(British spelling) a gaseous discharge lamp in which the arc discharge takes place in mercury vapour; used for highway illumination and as an industrial source of ultraviolet radiation]

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