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An LED is a light-emitting diode. Lighting an LED is considered the "Hello world" of a circuit design, and it can be as simple as using a series resistor, or it can get more complicated, involving PWM and multiplexing.

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Car Tail light - why the extra components?

I'm replacing the LED in a car tail-light. Naturally, it will run off 12V (battery) but the circuit I have uses just an LED and a 0.6w (440ohm) resistor. … Would the existing LED be a higher wattage LED; It's just the same looking led, there's no heat-sink or anything. …
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