- Industria: Energy
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American conglomerate currently ranked by Forbes as the world's largest company. GE has multifarious business interests including power generation and financial services.
Plane at which work is done and at which illumination is specified and measured; unless otherwise indicated, it is assumed to be a horizontal plane 30 inches above the floor (table-top height) having the same area as the floor.
Industry:Lights & lighting
For Multi-Mirror® and other reflector Quartzline® lamps and MARC™ Projection lamps, the Working Distance shown is the distance from the front surface of the reflector rim to the film plane, in the optical system for which the lamp was first designed. In most cases, it provides a uniform plane of light for the intended aperture.
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Current which flows in one direction and then the other, alternately.
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Directional lighting to emphasise a particular object or draw attention to a display item.
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The process by which the human eye adjusts to a change in light level.
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Typical application and/or other important information including footnotes, operating information, features and benefits.
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The general lighting present in an area --excluding task lighting and accent lighting but including general lighting and daylight streaming in.
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("Amps.") A measure of electrical current. In incandescent lamps, the current is related to voltage and power as follows: Watts (power) = Volts x Amps (current).
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Also called "lighting application," it refers to the particular use the lamp is being put to. (e.g. high-bay industrial application or retail lighting application.) The term can also refer in a general way to "application engineering" which deals with specific paramters and usage of light sources. (e.g. how to do a lighting layout, where to place fixtures and so on.)
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Intense luminous discharge formed by the passage of electric current in a gaseous medium across a space between electrodes. (See ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE).
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