visible light

1. (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation (synset 111494354)
   "the light was filtered through a soft glass window"
   referred to in: natural philosophy, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions
   is a type of: actinic radiation, actinic ray - electromagnetic radiation that can produce photochemical reactions
   subtypes:

   • beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light - a column of light (as from a beacon)
   • 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
   • 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
   • glow - a steady even light without flames
   • half-light - a greyish light (as at dawn or dusk or in dim interiors)
   • 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
   • 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
   is a part of: electromagnetic spectrum - the entire frequency range of electromagnetic waves
   same as: light, visible radiation

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