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Searchlights

LC control no.sh 85119356
LC classificationTK4399.S4 Technology
UG614 UG614.5 Military
VM493 Naval
Topical headingSearchlights
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Variant(s)Search-lights
See alsoElectric lighting
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Found inWork cat.: The electric mirror on ancient Alexandria's Pharos lighthouse and other ancient lighting, c2006: p. 3, etc. (searchlights)
Random House dictionary. 2nd ed., unabridged, 1987: p. 1727 (searchlight)
Wikipedia, viewed Oct. 4, 2007 ("A searchlight is an apparatus with reflectors for projecting a powerful beam of light of approximately parallel rays in a particular direction, usually devised so that it can be swiveled about")