visible light
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1. (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation (noun.phenomenon)
| hyponym | : | corona, |
| definition | : | one or more circles of light seen around a luminous object (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | counterglow, gegenschein, |
| definition | : | a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | daylight, |
| definition | : | light during the daytime (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | firelight, |
| definition | : | the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace) (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | fluorescence, |
| definition | : | light emitted during absorption of radiation of some other (invisible) wavelength (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | gaslight, |
| definition | : | light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | glow, glowing, radiance, |
| definition | : | the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | glow, |
| definition | : | a steady even light without flames (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | half-light, |
| definition | : | a greyish light (as at dawn or dusk or in dim interiors) (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | glow, incandescence, |
| definition | : | the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | lamplight, |
| definition | : | light from a lamp (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | luminescence, |
| definition | : | light not due to incandescence; occurs at low temperatures (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | meteor, shooting star, |
| definition | : | a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | starlight, |
| definition | : | the light of the stars (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | scintillation, |
| definition | : | (physics) a flash of light that is produced in a phosphor when it absorbs a photon or ionizing particle (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | streamer, |
| definition | : | light that streams (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | torchlight, |
| definition | : | light from a torch or torches (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | twilight, |
| definition | : | the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth (noun.phenomenon) |
| domain category | : | natural philosophy, physics, |
| definition | : | the science of matter and energy and their interactions (noun.cognition) |
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