But so far away from the perfect sense of using the perfectly well established and perfectly descriptive and perfectly satisfactory term "power supply" as to be another perfectly bonkers example of the perfectly ridiculous compulsion people seem to have to coin new terms, or corrupt the meaning of existing ones.
Come on now, that is very unfair to the capacitors, transistors, resistors and other components inside the box.
Then they are only transformers because that is what they are called.
You've mentioned that before.
One could take that view, and the minds of most of us 'oldies' probably do. However, the moment we start saying that dictionaries, particularly the Oxford dictionary, are 'wrong', it is not obvious what we can then regard as the official determinant of 'right' as far as the meaning of words is concerned.
Yes, I've mentioned it many times before - and, yes, I've seen that. However ....
That rather surprises me, since it seems to be a prize example of:
You have cited just two of the seven items in the Wikipedia's list of the meanings of 'lamp' (in the context of Lighting). Had the Wikipedia existed 30 years (or whatever) the list would have been much the same, but with that one 'electrical component' definition not being there. In those days (and for decades/centuries/millenia prior to that), a lamp was an item which used oil, gas, a 'light bulb', tube or whatever to produce light - and that was a very well-established proper meaning, in no way 'colloquial'.
That's fine for determining the terminology/jargon to be used by specialists within an industry, but it's of little use to the general public, who one can't blame for relying on standard English dictionaries.
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