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  2. Light switch - Wikipedia

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    In electrical wiring, a light switch is a switch most commonly used to operate electric lights, permanently connected equipment, or electrical outlets. Portable lamps such as table lamps may have a light switch mounted on the socket, base, or in-line with the cord.

  3. Backlight - Wikipedia

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    An ELP gives off uniform light over its entire surface, but other backlights frequently employ a diffuser to provide even lighting from an uneven source. Backlights come in many colors. Monochrome LCDs typically have yellow , green , blue , or white backlights, while color displays use white backlights that cover most of the color spectrum .

  4. LED-backlit LCD - Wikipedia

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    Televisions that use a combination of an LED backlight with an LCD panel are sometimes advertised as LED TVs, although they are not truly LED displays. [1] [2] Backlit LCDs cannot achieve true blacks for pixels, unlike OLED and microLED displays. This is because even in the "off" state, black pixels still allow some light from the backlight ...

  5. Screen burn-in - Wikipedia

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    Burn-in on a monitor, when severe as in this "please wait" message, is visible even when the monitor is switched off. Screen burn-in, image burn-in, ghost image, or shadow image, is a permanent discoloration of areas on an electronic visual display such as a cathode-ray tube (CRT) in an older computer monitor or television set.

  6. Time switch - Wikipedia

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    The timer may switch equipment on, off, or both, at a preset time or times, after a preset interval, or cyclically. A countdown time switch switches power, usually off, after a preset time. A cyclical timer switches equipment both on and off at preset times over a period, then repeats the cycle; the period is usually 24 hours or 7 days.

  7. Angry Cat Shuts off TV After the Spare Human Decided to Play ...

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    The same article goes on to say that cats who enjoy watching TV may have more of a hunter personality than cats not as fascinated by the boob tube, "Some cats will watch nearly anything on the TV ...

  8. Blinkenlights - Wikipedia

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    Watching the lights allows one to follow the instructions and the changing data as it runs the Squares program displayed on the panels. In computer jargon, blinkenlights are diagnostic lights on front panels of old mainframe computers. More recently the term applies to status lights of modern network hardware (modems, network hubs, etc.). [1]

  9. More bad news for Miami? CFP chair says committee won't ... - AOL

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    There’s not another datapoint because they’re not playing in the championship games. So we don’t have anything else to add to the evaluation of those teams, so we can’t move them above or ...