Dimmer
['dɪmə] or ['dɪmɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a rheostat that varies the current through an electric light in order to control the level of illumination.
Checker: Sherman--From WordNet
Examples
- And is justice dimmer in the individual, and is her form different, or is she the same which we found her to be in the State? Plato. The Republic.
- So did the old man, otherwise still unchanged in attitude; so, probably, did the old woman in her dimmer part of the room. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Dusk was beginning to reign; her parlour fire already glowed with twilight ruddiness; but I thought she wished the room dimmer, the hour later. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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