VISIBLE RADIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does visible radiation mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISIBLE RADIATION (noun)

Sense 1

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 radiation" is a kind of...):

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

Domain category:

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

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

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

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)

torchlight (light from a torch or torches)

streamer (light that streams)

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

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

starlight (the light of the stars)

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

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)

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

lamplight (light from a lamp)

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

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

glow (a steady even light without flames)

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

gaslight (light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas)

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

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

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

daylight (light during the daytime)

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)

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

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

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

electromagnetic spectrum (the entire frequency range of electromagnetic waves)

 Context examples 

The formation of a stratosphere layer in a planet’s atmosphere is attributed to sunscreen-like molecules, which absorb UV and visible radiation coming from the star and then release that energy as heat.

(WASP-18b Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water, NASA)