An arclight or
arc lamp
An arc lamp or arc light is a lamp that produces light by an electric arc (also called a voltaic arc).
The carbon arc light, which consists of an arc between carbon electrodes in air, invented by Humphry Davy in the first decade of the 1800s, ...
is a lamp that produces a bright light by generating an electric arc across two electrodes.
Arclight, Arc Light or arc light may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Characters
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Arclight (comics)
Arclight (Philippa Sontag) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist John Romita Jr., she is a former military officer who later becomes an assassin. She is prim ...
, a mutant super-villain character from Marvel Comics
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Arclight (DC Comics), a super-villain character from DC Comics
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Arclight family, characters from the ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal''
* Jackson Dane (codename Arclight), a member of the
Team 7
Team 7 is a comic book superhero team that appeared in titles published by Wildstorm Productions. The team has appeared in 3 self-titled miniseries: ''Team 7'', ''Team 7: Objective Hell'' and ''Team 7: Dead Reckoning''. The first 5-issue Gen13 ...
superheroes from Wildstorm Comics
Music
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''Arc Light'' (album), a 2009 album by Lau
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''Arclight'' (album), a 2016 album by Julian Lage
* ''Arclight'', the third album by Swedish rock band
Silverbullit
* "Arclight", a song by VNV Nation, from the album ''
Empires
An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred t ...
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* "Arclight", a song by Deathstars, from the album ''
Night Electric Night''
* "Arclight", a song by Exhumed from the album ''
Anatomy Is Destiny'', 2003
* "Arclight", a song by
The Fat Lady Sings
Theaters
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ArcLight Cinemas, a former American theatre chain based in Los Angeles
Other arts and entertainment
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''Arc Light'' (novel), a 1994 techno-thriller novel by Eric Harry
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''Arc Light'' (film), 1988 Chinese film
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''Arclight'' (novel), a novel series by Josin L. McQuein
Military
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ArcLight (missile), a development program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a replacement for the Tomahawk missile
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Operation Arc Light
During Operation Arc Light (sometimes Arclight) from 1965 to 1973, the United States Air Force deployed B-52 Stratofortresses from bases in the U.S. Territory of Guam to provide battlefield air interdiction during the Vietnam War. This included ...
, the 1965 deployment of B-52 Stratofortress bombers to Guam
Other uses
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ArcLight (biology), a genetically-encoded voltage indicator
* Arclight Fabrication, an
Aaron Kaufman owned business
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