searchlight

2 definitions found

searchlight - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Searchlight \Search"light`\, n.
     (a) An apparatus for projecting a powerful beam of light of
         approximately parallel rays, usually devised so that it
         can be swiveled about.
     (b) The beam of light projecting by this apparatus.
         [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

searchlight - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  searchlight
      n 1: a light source with reflectors that projects a beam of
           light in a particular direction