VISIBLE LIGHT

Pronunciation (US):

• VISIBLE LIGHT (noun)
  The noun VISIBLE LIGHT has 1 sense:

1. (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation

  Familiarity information: VISIBLE LIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

• VISIBLE LIGHT (noun)

Meaning:

(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

light; visible light; visible radiation

Context example:

the light was filtered through a soft glass window

Hypernyms ("visible light" is a kind of...):

actinic radiation; actinic ray (electromagnetic radiation that can produce photochemical reactions)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physical science; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "visible light"):

beam; beam of light; irradiation; light beam; ray; ray of light; shaft; shaft of light (a column of light (as from a beacon))

glow; incandescence (the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised)

lamplight (light from a lamp)

luminescence (light not due to incandescence; occurs at low temperatures)

meteor; shooting star (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)

moon; moonlight; moonshine (the light of the moon)

starlight (the light of the stars)

sun; sunlight; sunshine (the rays of the sun)

scintillation ((physics) a flash of light that is produced in a phosphor when it absorbs a photon or ionizing particle)

streamer (light that streams)

torchlight (light from a torch or torches)

half-light (a greyish light (as at dawn or dusk or in dim interiors))

glow (a steady even light without flames)

candle flame; candlelight (the light provided by a burning candle)

corona (one or more circles of light seen around a luminous object)

counterglow; gegenschein (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)

daylight (light during the daytime)

twilight (the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth)

firelight (the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace))

fluorescence (light emitted during absorption of radiation of some other (invisible) wavelength)

friar's lantern; ignis fatuus; jack-o'-lantern; will-o'-the-wisp (a pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground)

gaslight (light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas)

glow; glowing; radiance (the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface)

Holonyms ("visible light" is a part of...):

electromagnetic spectrum (the entire frequency range of electromagnetic waves)