Daylight Lamp

daylight lamp

[′dā‚līt ‚lamp]

(electricity)

An incandescent or fluorescent lamp that emits light whose spectral distribution is approximately that of daylight.

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Daylight Lamp

 

a fluorescent lamp, with a bluish glow. Two types of such lamps are being manufactured in the USSR: type LDTs (daylight, with correct color rendition) and type LD (daylight). Lamps of the LD type do not provide correct color rendition of the objects being illuminated; they are used for general lighting, particularly in southern regions (because of the cold color of the glow). Lamps of the LTDs type are used to illuminate objects for which the exact rendition of color hues is important, particularly where the colors are in the blue and pale-blue spectral regions (deluxe and superdeluxe models). The light output of LDTs lamps is 10–15 percent lower than that of LD lamps. Such lamps are used for lighting production areas. The term “daylight lamp” is often incorrectly applied to all types of fluorescent lamps.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

daylight lamp

1. Any type of lamp which produces light whose spectral distribution approximates that of a specified daylight condition.

2. See incandescent daylight lamp.

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