Usually means: Gas-discharge lamp using mercury vapor.
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  1. mercury-vapour lamp, mercury-vapour lamp: Collins English Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (mercury-vapour lamp)

noun:  (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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