Lumination

Quick meaning: Lumination is a noun meaning (rare) Illumination; specifically, artificial illumination.

Meaning

(rare) Illumination; specifically, artificial illumination.

Example Sentences

Who knows how many forgotten souls had rotted away and eventually died within the walls of this dungeon? Would he be one of them? The only light was the scant lumination that flickered upon the floor cast by a torch far down the hall.

It is not atypical for a newly installed LED [light-emitting diode] board to be capable of luminating for 100,000 hours, continuously, in a 24/7 production facility. In the future, these lumination times are expected to increase incrementally.

We are confronted with saving our entire Pleistocene legacy, with redeeming creation, beyond big bangs and white dwarfs and any and all apocalypses. We are being offered the only way to understand what a universe is. The real universe, the one that beats in our hearts, that casts its luminations across our dreams …

The most delicate test for phosphorus is the distillation of the suspected substance, especially flour paste, with a little sulphuric acid and water. […] Where the aqueous vapors from the flask reach the cooling tube, a lumination is constantly observed in the dark, usually a luminous ring. […] If ether, alcohol or turpentine are present, they will prevent the lumination, which commences as soon as they have passed over.

Word Forms

• luminations

Synonyms for lumination

Depending on context, synonyms include brightening, lighting, illumination.

Antonyms for lumination

Common opposites include darkening, shadowing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lumia, illumination, irradiation, luminism, light, lightscape.

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