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traffic light

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. traffic light, traffic signal, stoplightnoun

    a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections

Wiktionary

  1. traffic lightnoun

    a signalling device positioned at a road intersection or pedestrian crossing to indicate when it may be safe to drive, ride or walk, using a universal colour code.

  2. traffic lightnoun

    the coloured dots on stamp sheet margins printed with offset litho or photogravure methods, used by the printers to check colour accuracy.

Wikipedia

  1. Traffic light

    Traffic lights, traffic signals, or stoplights – known also as robots in South Africa – are signalling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings, and other locations in order to control flows of traffic.Traffic lights consist normally of three signals, transmitting meaningful information to drivers and riders through colours and symbols including arrows and bicycles. The regular traffic light colours are red, amber (also known as yellow), and green arranged vertically or horizontally in that order. Although this is internationally standardised, variations exist on national and local scales as to traffic light sequences and laws.The method was first introduced in December 1868 on Parliament Square in London to reduce the need for police officers to control traffic. Since then, electricity and computerised control has advanced traffic light technology and increased intersection capacity. The system is also used for other purposes, for example, to control pedestrian movements, variable lane control (such as tidal flow systems or smart motorways), and railway level crossings.

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  1. traffic light

    A traffic light is a visual signaling device positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings, and other locations to control the flow of traffic. It uses a universally understood color coding system — red to signal vehicles or pedestrians to stop, green to allow them to proceed, and yellow (or amber) to caution them that the light is about to change.

Wikidata

  1. Traffic light

    Traffic lights, also known as traffic signals, traffic lamps, signal lights, robots in South Africa and, in the past, semaphores, are signalling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings and other locations to control competing flows of traffic. Traffic lights were first installed in 1868 in London and are now used all over the world. Traffic lights alternate the right of way accorded to road users by displaying lights of a standard color following a universal color code. In the typical sequence of color phases: ⁕the green light allows traffic to proceed in the direction denoted, if it is safe to do so ⁕the yellow/amber light denoting prepare to stop short of the intersection, if it is safe to do so ⁕the red signal prohibits any traffic from proceeding

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of traffic light in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of traffic light in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of traffic light in a Sentence

  1. Heathrow Airport:

    The current traffic light system is an outlier and is delaying the government's global Britain ambitions, handing rivals a competitive advantage while the UK loses market share.

  2. Natascha Engel:

    Shale gas could still have an exciting future in the UK but for that to be the case, the traffic light system needs to be reviewed quickly or the limits changed to reflect the measurements used in every other extractive industry, in the absence of that, a perfectly viable industry is wasted.

  3. He Jiankun:

    It would redound to China's everlasting credit if this policy of financing the construction of so many new coal plants in other countries could respectfully be reviewed and reconsidered, perhaps the traffic light that is now showing green could blink yellow and then blink red. And decisions might be made in favor of alternative sources of energy in the way China finances development in other countries.

  4. He Jiankun:

    Perhaps the traffic light that is now showing green could blink yellow and then blink red. And decisions might be made in favor of alternative sources of energy in the way China finances development in other countries.

  5. Howard Jackson:

    I would like to have a job that would allow me to leave the traffic light and spend more time studying, one day I will be somebody who can have a good job and defend myself and defend other poor people who have no rights.


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