electronic flash


noun Photography.

a flash lamp, usually attached to a camera or housed within the camera body, that produces brilliant flashes of light by the discharge of current through a gas-filled tube.
Also called flashtube.

Origin of electronic flash

First recorded in 1945–50

British Dictionary definitions for electronic flash

electronic flash

noun

photog an electronic device for producing a very bright flash of light by means of an electric discharge in a gas-filled tube