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Definition of Beam of light
1. Noun. A column of light (as from a beacon).
Specialized synonyms: Heat Ray, High Beam, Moon Ray, Moon-ray, Moonbeam, Sunbeam, Sunray, Laser Beam, Low Beam
Generic synonyms: Light, Visible Light, Visible Radiation
Derivative terms: Beam, Beamy, Irradiate, Ray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beam Of Light
Literary usage of Beam of light
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays on the Floating-matter of the Air in Relation to Putrefaction and by John Tyndall (1882)
"NOTE I. Action of Bacteria upon a Beam of Light. To trace the gradual growth and
multiplication of the Bacteria by their action on a beam of light, ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"ETERNAL beam of light DIVINE ETERNAL Beam of Light divine, Fountain of unexhausted
love, In whom the Father's glories shine, Through earth beneath and ..."
3. Treatise on Optics by David Brewster, Alexander Dallas Bache (1854)
"A section of such a beam of light will be a circle, like ACBD, fig. ... If we
now allow the same beam of light to fall upon a rhomb of Iceland spar, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"... moved toward the beam of light. There was very little, if any, difference
observed in the reactions toward beams of white and of the various spectral ..."
5. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1878)
"... which entirely excludes the central beam of light; in this stop, however, This
appearance is in exact accordance with Professor Abbe's theory. ..."
6. Journal by Institution of Electrical Engineers Radio Section (1880)
"We have devised upwards of fifty forms of apparatus for varying a beam of light
in the manner required, but only a few typical varieties need be described. ..."
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