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strip lighting

strip lighting

3.5
Long narrow light tubes, often LED or fluorescent, that give even light
  • noun
  • /strɪp ˈlaɪtɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : iluminación de tira
  • To create a cozy atmosphere, she installed strip lighting under the shelves in the living room.

So I have LED strip lighting in my toolbox.

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Examples

  • If you guys are wondering, these are actually like Philips Hue strip lights behind this TV mount here that I installed myself.

  • The kitchen featured modern strip lighting that provided even illumination across the counters.

  • And these guys at night, we're going to put LED strip lights all over them.

  • So they're almost like these strip lights that guide my way.

  • Whilst all of ours was custom, you can get strip lights on places like Amazon that just stick to things.

  • So I have LED strip lighting in my toolbox.

  • You can buy Billy glass doors for the bookcases and then online you can buy these LED strip lights for about a buck a foot.

  • I do plan to keep the links handy, though, if only to check them out next time I want RGB strip lighting.

    Blog text (12)
  • Orange-yellow strip lighting, deeper than Earth's light, illuminated the spaces.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • RGB strip lights are cool, but what's even better is spatially and temporally coherent lights.

How Bright

floodlight
9 3.4
strip lighting
  • Specialized
3.5
room light
2 1.0
lamp
274 1.0
candle
451 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

strip + lighting

The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'strip' (a long, narrow piece) with 'lighting' (artificial light): it denotes lighting provided by long narrow fixtures or strips. This noun-noun composition is a transparent, compositional pattern common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

The name strip lighting comes from the simple picture of long, thin strip lights — long tubes or slim LED lines that run along a ceiling or wall. That's why strip lighting means 'long, narrow lights' that give 'even light' for a room or a display.