"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: 59 41 Disambiguation of 'small persistent flame used to ignite': 94 6 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.
    Sense id: en-pilot_light-en-noun-76qtkqUy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 73 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 33 67 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 26 74

Inflected forms

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