- Branche: Energy
- Number of terms: 8202
- Number of blossaries: 3
- Company Profile:
American conglomerate currently ranked by Forbes as the world's largest company. GE has multifarious business interests including power generation and financial services.
GE trademark for its biaxial family of high-efficiency and long-life compact fluorescent lamps. A straight tube is bent back in the middle, constituting a biaxial tube.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Skin reddening and inflammation caused by overexposure to sources containing UV-B and/or UV-C.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A GE registered trademark for a line of HID lamps (Mercury or Metal Halide) which will self-extinguish shortly after the outer bulb is broken or ruptured. This prevents the possibility of the arc tube continuing to operate and causing sunburns in people sitting under the lamps.
Industry:Lights & lighting
GE's special barrier coating applied on the inside of all GE T8 fluorescent lamps, a well as some other lamp types, to enhance lamp life and deliver superior lumen maintenance.
Industry:Lights & lighting
For Projection lamps, this is defined as the dimensions of the rectangular area, centered on the lamp axis, within which all luminous parts of the filament lie, when viewed perpendicular to the axis of the filament coil or to the plane of C-13 and C-13D filaments.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A general term for the release of energy in a "wave" or "ray" form. All light is radiant energy or radiation, as is heat, UV, microwaves, radio waves, etc.
Industry:Lights & lighting
The ratio of light reflected from a surface to that incident upon it.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A light source with a built-in reflecting surface. Sometimes, the term is used to refer specifically to blown bulbs like the R and ER lamps; at other times, it includes all reflectorized lamps like PAR and MR.
Industry:Lights & lighting
