Light-bearing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Light-bearing is an adjective meaning Bearing or serving as a medium for light; (by extension) luminous; bright.
Meaning
Bearing or serving as a medium for light; (by extension) luminous; bright.
Example Sentences
The high worth of diamonds comes from the same source: a super-hard, eternal substance, at the same time a light-bearing, translucent substance, a kind of solid emptiness, a marvelous optical illusion.
Others within the Cartesian tradition took the idea of a light-bearing medium in quite different directions. For instance, in 1690 Christiaan Huygens considered light to be a sequence of pulses traveling at a finite velocity within the medium.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include luminous, luminant, lightsome, illuminating, alight, illuminous.
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