Floodlight

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A floodlight is a broad-beamed, high-intensity artificial light. It can provide functional area lighting^[1] for travel-ways, parking, entrances, work areas, and sporting venues to enable visibility adequate for safe task performance, ornamental lighting for advertising, façades, monuments, or support perimeter security.^[2] Floodlights are often used to illuminate outdoor playing fields while an outdoor sports event is being held during low-light conditions. More focused kinds are often used as a stage lighting instrument in live performances such as concerts and plays.

Floodlights may also be used to add effects to buildings at night, called architectural illumination.^[3]