Usually means: Vivid memory of momentous event.
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  1. flashbulb: Merriam-Webster
  2. flashbulb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flashbulb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flashbulb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flashbulb: Vocabulary.com
  6. flashbulb: Wordnik
  7. flashbulb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flashbulb: Wiktionary
  9. flashbulb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flashbulb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flashbulb: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. flashbulb: Dictionary.com
  13. Flashbulb, The Flashbulb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. flashbulb: Rhymezone
  15. flashbulb: FreeDictionary.org
  16. flashbulb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. flashbulb: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Flashbulb (disambiguation), flashbulb: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Flashbulb: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (historical, photography) A glass bulb that made a single bright flash for illumination during a photograph.

Similar:
photoflash, flashgun, flash, flash lamp, flash photography, camera flash, blinky, microflash, flashcube, ring flash, more...

Opposite:
slow burn, gradual, steady, prolonged

Types:
incandescent, tungsten, halogen, fluorescent, compact fluorescent, Edison bulb, more...

Phrases:
flashbulb memories, flashbulb memory, more...

Adjectives:
single, giant, first, last, blue, small, photographic, second, used, huge, gigantic

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Similar:
photoflash, flashgun, flash, flash lamp, flash photography, camera flash, blinky, microflash, flashcube, ring flash, more...

Opposite:
slow burn, gradual, steady, prolonged

Types:
incandescent, tungsten, halogen, fluorescent, compact fluorescent, Edison bulb, more...

Phrases:
flashbulb memories, flashbulb memory, more...

Adjectives:
single, giant, first, last, blue, small, photographic, second, used, huge, gigantic



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