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Definition of Running light
1. Noun. Light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Running Light
Literary usage of Running light
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"... within a larger tract Cowan т. Hatcher (Tenn.) 59 SW «89, 69L running light.
A railroad engine is said to be "running light" when it is not drawing cara ..."
2. Direct-current Machinery: A Text-book on the Theory and Performance of by Harold Pender (1922)
"The connections for a running-light test, when applied to a shunt machine, ...
Connections for Running-light Test. compound machine is tested in the same ..."
3. Direct-current Machinery: A Text-book on the Theory and Performance of by Harold Pender (1922)
"Running-light Test.—The connections for a running-light test, when applied to a
shunt machine, are shown in Fig. 132. A Line Variable Resistance ..."
4. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1874)
"By the roll train running light, 28'5 horse-power. ... Power absorbed by each
train of rolls when running light, 21 horse-power. ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1899)
"(e -\- •/„ xf -\- if r* which solved in reference to i0 the running light current
gives denoting the converter voltage e = I The converter full load current ..."
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