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Visible light   /vˈɪzəbəl laɪt/   Listen
Visible light

noun
1.
(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation.  Synonyms: light, visible radiation.






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"Visible light" Quotes from Famous Books



... but pretty nearly, I'll leave a hole in the ether screen to pass visible light—no, I won't either. You folks can see just as well, even on the direct-vision wall plates, with light heterodyned on the fifth, so we'll close all ether bands, absolutely. All we'll have to leave ...
— Skylark Three • Edward Elmer Smith

... action of the emitted rays is feeble, comparatively speaking; and that the visible light of the fluidic hands is less actinic than the ...
— The Problems of Psychical Research - Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal • Hereward Carrington

... clean, new, sweet lucidity of her just-returned consciousness she saw what she was not to forget, something like a steady, visible light, which was Neale's life. That was Neale himself. And as she looked at him silently, she thought it no wonder that she had been literally almost frightened to death by the mere possibility that it had not existed. She had been right in thinking ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher

... a latent state, the experience of the stricken flint, of lightning from the clouds, and the like, served to prove, or at least, it supplied a popular answer to the objection;—"If the soul be light, why is it not visible?" That the purest light is invisible to our gross sense, and that visible light is a compound of light and shadow, were answers of a later and more refined period. Observe, however, that the Hebrew Legislator precluded all unfit applications of the materializing fancy by forbidding the people to 'imagine' at all concerning God. For the ...
— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge



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