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Traffic light
//ˈtɹæˌfɪk laɪt// noun
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- 1 A signalling device positioned at a road intersection or pedestrian crossing indicating the moment it is safe to drive, ride or walk, using a universal color code.
"In Sydney you'd better be riding the clutch and completely in sync with the traffic lights so that your car is already moving as they turn green."
- 2 a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections wordnet
- 3 A signalling device positioned at a road intersection or pedestrian crossing indicating the moment it is safe to drive, ride or walk, using a universal color code.; A road intersection controlled by one or more such devices. plural-normally
"How do I get to the hospital? ~ You go straight on to the traffic lights, then turn left at the traffic lights and the hospital is on your right."
- 4 A colour code using the three signals of a traffic light (green, yellow or amber, and red) as a metaphor.
"The Department of Health recommends that food packaging display the recommended daily intake with a traffic light system, for ease of understanding."
- 5 The colored dots on stamp sheet margins printed with offset printing or photogravure methods, used by the printers to check color accuracy.
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- 6 In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of four blinkers that are orthogonally equidistant from a central point.
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