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n. - A lamp for providing momentary light to take a picture.

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  • Advantage of this effect is taken in a photoflash device and in some spot-welding equipment.
  • Every few minutes the whole landscape seems to explode, as if a giant photoflash has gone off above it.
  • In the cosmic ray example, a better indication would be that it has an energy similar to what is required for a photoflash on a camera.
  • The words were caught in a firework of photoflash, and her picture appeared on the cover of Celebrity Ferrets, her question turned large type below.
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