Lighting vs Fixture - What's the difference?
lighting | fixture |
The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.
* 2012 , Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)
The process of annealing metals.
(Webster 1913)
(legal) Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it.
A regular patron of a place or institution.
A lighting unit; a luminaire.
(sports) A scheduled match.
(computing, programming) A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests.
A work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry.
To furnish with, as, or in a fixture
(sports, Australia, New Zealand) To schedule a match
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 30, author=AAP, title=Zimbabwe cricket head Chingoka refused entry to Australia, work=Herald Sun
, passage=Other items to be discussed include fixturing from 2012 onwards, preparations for this year's scheduled Champions Trophy and the Indian Cricket League's bid for recognition from the ICC. }}
As nouns the difference between lighting and fixture
is that lighting is the equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided while fixture is (legal) something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it.As a verb fixture is
to furnish with, as, or in a fixture.lighting
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Noun
(wikipedia lighting) (en noun)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
- We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings , so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?
fixture
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(wikipedia fixture)Noun
(en noun)External links
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(fixtur)- The device is available in both handheld and fixtured models.
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