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traffic light
noun
- a set of electrically operated signal lights used to direct or control traffic at intersections.
traffic light
noun
- one of a set of coloured lights placed at crossroads, junctions, etc, to control the flow of traffic. A red light indicates that traffic must stop and a green light that it may go: usually an amber warning light is added between the red and the green
Word History and Origins
Origin of traffic light1
Example Sentences
So I’m clicking the stupid images with the traffic lights, and I’m clicking the stupid images with the crosswalks.
Pelino is unsure when more ambitious projects, like using machine learning to optimize traffic lights, will be reinstated.
Take, for example, “smart city” companies, which promise that local governments will be able to ease congestion by monitoring cars in real time and adjusting the timing of traffic lights.
Coordinating all these programmed traffic lights to keep vehicles moving is a problem.
Traffic-light systems are normally timed and programmed in a way that’s supposed to be efficient, but then the precise number of cars stopped by each traffic light varies constantly.
A detective drives through dark city streets and stops at a traffic light.
A partial solution, perhaps, would be to adopt the kind of traffic light food labeling required in Britain.
At the first traffic light, one woman left her car and approached the other, perhaps to end the confrontation.
Dorner allegedly ambushed the two cops as they were stopped at a traffic light.
Every car, as we sailed by, stalled and every traffic light we passed either turned three colors or blinked out completely.
I even knocked out every red neon sign within two blocks of a traffic light.
I could just pick out the dogleg at Connors, and imagined I could see the traffic light at Chalmers.
He followed us from the box down the steps of the post office to the traffic light.
It was like the change of a traffic light from green to red.
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