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Discover LudwigThe word "flashlight" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the handheld device that emits light and typically requires batteries. Example sentence: I grabbed my flashlight and went out for a late-night walk.
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flashlight
noun
A battery-powered hand-held lightsource.
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Another one was against Goldenshores Technologies, a firm whose free flashlight app did not tell consumers that it was sharing location information with third parties, including advertising networks.Beacons will cause new complications, because they can open up apps without a user's express permission.
He explained how the system works".The TSO uses a flashlight or some other means to attempt to verify the identification document [passport or driver's licence]," he said, "and then they make a subjective determination between you and the document: are you the person depicted?
Nokia has produced a mobile phone that includes a built-in flashlight and a dust-resistant keypad.
As a child he scribbled by flashlight under the covers at boarding school.
Not everyone likes backlit LCD displays; to some users it feels like "a flashlight in the eye", says Mr Haber, and they may well prefer an E Ink display.
"Hedge funds used to be set up by two guys in a back alley with a flashlight," says one veteran.
Additional features of modified batons may include a built-in flashlight, an electric charge, or a syringe (e.g., for administering an antidote to nerve gas).
In contrast, a typical flashlight beam produces a similar one-metre spot within a few metres.
Flashlight fish, also called lantern-eye fish, any of three species of fishes in the family Anomalopidae (order Beryciformes), characterized by the presence of luminescent organs just below the eye.
For a cell with electrodes of zinc and manganese dioxide (e.g., the common flashlight dry cell), one finds that a chemical equivalent of zinc weighs 32.5 grams (1.4 ounces) and that of manganese dioxide about 87 grams (3.1 ounces).
Armed with a flashlight, Grimsley crawled above the false ceiling and was able to find the dressing room.
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