- Industry: Energy
- Number of terms: 8202
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- Company Profile:
American conglomerate currently ranked by Forbes as the world's largest company. GE has multifarious business interests including power generation and financial services.
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Industry:Lights & lighting
A name for fused silica or melted sand from which many high-temperature containers are fashioned in the lighting industry. Quartz looks like glass but can withstand the high temperatures needed to contain high intensity arc discharges.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A term referring to the lamp and ballast combination, and sometimes to the entire lighting delivery system including the fixture, the optics, the particular layout and the lighting controls.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A common way of referring to high efficiency GE T8 family of lamps that perform better than standard T8 lamps. Also refers to the system.
Industry:Lights & lighting
The task associated with seeing; objects and details that must be seen to perform an activity.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A measure of "electrical pressure" between two points. The higher the voltage, the more current will be pushed through a resistor connected across the points. The volt specification of an incandescent lamp is the electrical "pressure" required to drive it at its designed point. The "voltage" of a ballast (e.g. 277 V) refers to the line voltage it must be connected to.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A measurement of the electromotive force in an electrical circuit or device expressed in volts. Voltage can be thought of as being analogous to the pressure in a waterline.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A unit of electrical power. Lamps are rated in watts to indicate the rate at which they consume energy. (See KILOWATT HOUR).
Industry:Lights & lighting
The distance between two neighboring crests of a traveling wave. The wavelength of light is between 400 and 700 nanometers.
Industry:Lights & lighting
