Red Light - Law Dictionary Search Results
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an electrically operated set of lights at a road intersection which has different lights visible to traffic from different directions designed to control vehicle traffic through the intersection Each set of lights typically has a colored red light and also green and amber lights the color of the light which is lighted at any one time changes automatically to control the flow of traffic through the intersection allowing flow from different directions in alternating succession Also called traffic light traffic signal or stop light When the red light is illuminated the signal means to stop green means to go and amber means to stop or procede through the intersection with caution In simple intersections of two roads a red light visible to traffic on one road will usually be accompanied by a green light visible to traffic on the intersecting road In some locations the lights may be set to be illuminated in other sequences or combinations a blinking red light is typically equivalent to a ldq...
Red light district
A district or neighborhood in which houses of prostitution are located so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night...
Melanoscope
An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they transmit only red light so that objects of other colors as green leaves appear black when seen through it It is used for viewing colored flames to detect the presence of potassium lithium etc by the red light which they emit...
Murexide
A crystalline nitrogenous substance C8H8N6O6 5 5 nitrilodibarbituric acid monoammonium salt having a splendid dichroism being green by reflected light and garnet red by transmitted light It was formerly used in dyeing calico and was obtained in a large quantities from guano It is now synthesized from alloxan Formerly called also ammonium purpurate...
Bicycles
Bicycles. The use of these and similar machines, formerly regulated by byelaws made by local authorities under the (English) Highways Act of 1878, and the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, is regulated by s. 85 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888, which repeals all Acts empowering byelaws to be made on the subject, declares bicycles, etc., to be 'carriage within the meaning of the (English) Highway Acts' (see especially s. 78 of the Highway Act, 1835); but see Simpson v. Teignmouth, etc., Bridge Co., (1903) 1 KB 405, and in addition provides that cyclists must carry lamps between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise, and must give warning of their approach by bell or whistle. The Road Traffic Act, 1934, makes provisions as to red reflectors and a white surface in order to exempt bicyclists from having to shew a red rear light under (English)Road Transport Lighting Act, 1927, s. 5 [see (English) Pedal Cycles (White Surface) Provisional Regulations, 1934, 18 October,...
Catawba
A well known light red variety of American grape...
Cerise
Cherry colored a light bright red applied to textile fabrics especially silk...
Eclogite
A rock consisting of granular red garnet light green smaragdite and common hornblende so called in reference to its beauty...
Scissorstail
A tyrant flycatcher Milvulus forficatus of the Southern United States and Mexico which has a deeply forked tail It is light gray above white beneath salmon on the flanks and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers...
Chromophane
A general name for the several coloring matters red green yellow etc present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina held in solution by fats and slowly decolorized by light distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina...
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