"pilot light" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pilot lights [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pilot light (plural pilot lights)
  1. A small, persistent flame used to ignite gas. Categories (topical): Fire Coordinate_terms (small persistent flame used to ignite): igniter, sparker Translations (flame used to ignite gas): waakvlam [feminine] (Dutch), sytyke (Finnish), veilleuse [feminine] (French), flamme pilote [feminine] (French), Zündflamme (German), fiamma pilota [feminine] (Italian), 種火 (tanebi) (Japanese), piloto [masculine] (Portuguese), flacără pilot [feminine] (Romanian), flacără de aprindere [feminine] (Romanian), llama piloto [feminine] (Spanish), tändlåga (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-pilot_light-en-noun-6qgvIiZG Disambiguation of Fire: 49 51 Disambiguation of 'small persistent flame used to ignite': 95 5 Disambiguation of 'flame used to ignite gas': 97 3
  2. A small telltale lamp on a dynamo or battery circuit whose brightness indicates the voltage of the current. Categories (topical): Fire
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Inflected forms

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