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Definition of Light-sensitive
1. Adjective. Sensitive to visible light. "Photographic film is light-sensitive"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Light-sensitive
Literary usage of Light-sensitive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"The inner layer of the retina, which contains the light-sensitive cells and the
retinal blood vessels is, in essence, an expansion of the optic nerve. ..."
2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1896)
"The photographic films commonly in use are found to be opaque, and formed, in
fact, by grains of light-sensitive matter mechanically imprisoned by a ..."
3. Three-colour Photography: Three-colour Printing and the Production of by Arthur Hübl (1904)
"A compound which absorbs the green rays, permitting, however, all others to
penetrate or reflect, if at all light-sensitive can be only decomposed or ..."
4. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1904)
"You see here two pictures, of which one is much more vigorous than the other.
The exposure in both was twenty seconds. The light sensitive film consisted of ..."
5. The American Amateur Photographer (1904)
"The strong action of the so-called "non- actinic'' red on the blue and green
light sensitive films is very interesting; probably the dye as it is formed ..."
6. Mechanical World and Engineering Record (1881)
"Light sensitive cells There are several types of light sensitive cells but ...
The light sensitive properties are shown by change of resistance between the ..."
7. Three-colour Photography: With Special Reference to Three-colour Printing by Arthur Hübl (1904)
"A compound which absorbs the green rays, permitting, however, all others to
penetrate or reflect, if at all light-sensitive can be only decomposed or ..."