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What (who) is pilot light - definition

FLAME KEPT CONTINUALLY BURNING AND USED TO LIGHT BURNERS ON HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES

Pilot flame; Pilot lights; Pilot lamp

pilot light

(pilot lights)

A pilot light is a small gas flame in a cooker, stove, boiler, or fire. It burns all the time and lights the main large flame when the gas is turned fully on.

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pilot light

¦ noun

1. a small gas burner kept alight permanently to light a larger burner when needed, especially on a gas cooker or boiler.

2. an electric indicator light or control light.

Pilot light

·add. ·- A small incandescent telltale lamp on a dynamo or battery circuit to show approximately by its brightness the voltage of the current.

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Pilot light

A pilot light is a small gas flame, usually natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas, which serves as an ignition source for a more powerful gas burner. Originally a pilot light was kept permanently alight, but this wastes gas. Now it is more common to light a burner electrically, but gas pilot lights are still used when a high energy ignition source is necessary, as in when lighting a large burner.

A United States patent was filed May 13, 1922 for a "safety gas-control system" by two employees of the Newark, NJ-based Public Service Gas Company, Conrad Shuck, Jr. and George Layer.

The term "pilot light" is also used occasionally for an electrical indicator light that illuminates to show that electrical power is available, or that an electrical device is operating. Such indicators were originally incandescent lamps or neon lamps, but now are usually LEDs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot light

Examples of use of pilot light

1. Check whether cooker has automatic ignition or permanent pilot light. 11.

2. But with the collapse of my Greek pizza, the pilot light of hope flickered out.

3. In their experience, spectacles like this are created with digital special effects, or by switching on a pilot light and dialing up the gas on the asbestos logs.

4. Fleeing guests saw him spraying the fuel inside the house when the vapor was ignited, possibly by a pilot light or a candle, and exploded.

5. For the cocktail of fluids gave off vapours which were then ignited by the pilot light in his living room boiler.