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{{languages|Simmering Current}}
{{languages|Simmering Current}}
[[Category:2.3 Light Sources]
[[Category:2.3 Light Sources]]
[[Category:Alphabetical Index]]
[[Category:Alphabetical Index]]
[[Category:IALA Dictionary 1970-89 Edition]]
[[Category:IALA Dictionary 1970-89 Edition]]

Revision as of 00:07, 25 February 2009

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Low current maintained in an electric lamp (of incandescence or discharge type) when not required to emit light, usually in order to reduce the time taken to reach full light output after the normal supply current is fed to the lamp.




Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)