photoflash
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5.6
- noun
- /ˈfoʊtoʊflæʃ/
:
flash
- When the event began, the photoflash lit up the crowd, capturing their excited expressions.
Examples
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To get a clear picture at night, she decided to use a photoflash to illuminate the stage.
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Officials being paged at football games, dashing for cabs, for seats on airplanes, and the news seemed to shimmer in the air; everything in photoflash, plain objects hot and charged.
Fiction book (1992) -
The photographer used a photoflash to brighten the scenic shot he was capturing.
Synonyms
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1.7
A sudden, brief burst of bright light, for example from a camera
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2.2
A short bright light that brightens a scene when you take a photo
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3.5
A small lamp that gives a very bright short light for taking photos
A small device that makes a short bright light for taking photos
A bright, short burst that lights a subject for photos or tests
A small device that makes a bright light for taking photos
A small cube with several bulbs that fits on older cameras to give light for pictures
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Photoflash joins photo- which means 'light' and flash which means 'a sudden, short burst of light', just like in photograph. So a photoflash is the quick, bright lamp used to light a scene when you take a picture.