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flash

Definitions of flash
  1. noun
    a sudden brilliant understanding
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    type of:
    aperçu
    the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation
  2. noun
    a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
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    type of:
    signe visuel
    a signal that involves visual communication
  3. noun
    a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
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    type of:
    lampe
    an artificial source of visible illumination
    équipement photographique
    equipment used by a photographer
  4. noun
    a momentary brightness
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    type of:
    intensité, luminosité
    the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white
  5. noun
    a spatially localized brightness
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    type of:
    intensité, luminosité
    the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white
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