dimmer

dim·mer (d

1. A rheostat or other device used to vary the intensity of an electric light.

a. A parking light on a motor vehicle.

b. A low beam.

dimmer [ˈdɪmə]

1. (Physics / General Physics) a device, such as a rheostat, for varying the current through an electric light and thus changing the illumination

2. (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) (often plural) US

a. a dipped headlight on a road vehicle

b. a parking light on a car

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Noun

dimmer - a rheostat that varies the current through an electric light in order to control the level of illumination

rheostat, variable resistor - resistor for regulating current

Translations

dimmer [ˈdɪməʳ]

A. N

1. (on light switch) → regulador m de intensidad de luz

2. (US) (Aut) → interruptor m de las luces cortas or de cruce, interruptor m de las luces bajas(LAm)

B. CPD dimmer switch N → regulador m de intensidad de luz

dimmer [ˈdɪmə^r]

n (also dimmer switch) → variateur m dimmers

npl (US)

(= dipped headlights) [car] → codes mpl

(= parking lights) [car] → feux mpl de position

dimmer

n (Elec) → Dimmer m; (US Aut) → Abblendschalter or -hebel m; dimmers pl (US Aut) → Abblendlicht nt; (= sidelights) → Begrenzungsleuchten pl

dimmer [ˈdɪməʳ] n (also dimmer switch) → dimmer m inv, interruttore m a reostato

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As the sun went down behind the bank, the slightest blades of grass upon it seemed to become as distinctly visible as the arteries in the skeleton of a leaf; and when, as it slowly sank, the red and golden bars upon the water grew dimmer, and dimmer yet, as if they were sinking too; and all the glowing colours of departing day paled, inch by inch, before the sombre night; the scene became a thousand times more lonesome and more dreary than before, and all its influences darkened with the sky.

American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context

Also, it is admitted, when consciousness suffused his brain with a thought, that the thought was dimmer, vaguer than a similar thought in a human brain.

Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context

Then all at once darkness fell upon me, and anon from out of it, as to one who grows accustomed by degrees to a dimmer light, my former surroundings of deck and mast and cordage slowly resolved themselves.

Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context

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