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1.NounA signalling device positioned at a road intersection or pedestrian crossing indicating the moment it is safe to drive, ride or walk, using a universal color code."How do I get to the hospital? ~ You go straight on to the traffic lights, then turn left at the traffic lights and the hospital is on your right."
2.NounA road intersection controlled by one or more such devices."How do I get to the hospital? ~ You go straight on to the traffic lights, then turn left at the traffic lights and the hospital is on your right."
3.NounA colour code using the three signals of a traffic light (green, yellow or amber, and red) as a metaphor."The Department of Health recommends that food packaging display the recommended daily intake with a traffic light system, for ease of understanding."
4.NounThe colored dots on stamp sheet margins printed with offset printing or photogravure methods, used by the printers to check color accuracy.
5.NounIn Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of four blinkers that are orthogonally equidistant from a central point.