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streetlight

/street-lahyt/US // ˈstritˌlaɪt //UK // (ˈstriːtˌlaɪt) //

街灯,路灯,街燈,马路灯

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a light, usually supported by a lamppost, for illuminating a street or road.

Examples

  • For example, piezoelectric sensors in roads could detect the motion of vehicles to track traffic or to light upcoming road signs or streetlights as needed.

  • After the city agreed to pull the funding for the streetlights, for example, we learned that it’s not actually possible to turn them off completely.

  • Local governments have routinely acquired and deployed new technologies like smart streetlights without fully considering how the information collected could be used, or the biases embedded in the technology.

  • In San Diego, the streetlight system became exclusively a crime-fighting tool after the City Council defunded it.

  • We revealed how law enforcement targeted people for daring to talk back, monitored protesters from streetlights, harassed transit riders, and fought transparency.

  • Oh, it may have been a trick of the streetlight there, it may have been my imagination.

  • But under the first streetlight he was stopped by a grimy boy.