Significado

• Noun

  1. A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
  2. Especially, a metal casing with lens used to illuminate a stage (e.g. spotlight, floodlight).
  3. An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
  4. A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
  5. A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light.
  6. A lantern pinion or trundle wheel.
  7. A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; a lantern brass.
  8. A light formerly used as a signal by a railway guard or conductor at night.
  9. A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
  10. Aristotle's lantern

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