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Definition of Light-tight
1. Adjective. Not penetrable by light. "Lightproof containers"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Light-tight
Literary usage of Light-tight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"Rays coming from an object and д light-tight box, with a convex lens at one rad
Fie. 3. ... lighttight ..."
2. The Complete Photographer by Roger Child Bayley (1906)
"... the light—The »sink and water supply—Splash preventers—Shelves—Dishes, porcelain
or otherwise—For large work—Measures and scales—A light-tight drawer. ..."
3. The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete (1834)
"Whistling, humming, drinking, drumming, Light, tight, and airy ! TWAS at the town
of nate Clogheen That Serjeant Snap met Paddy Carey ; A claner boy was ..."
4. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1900)
"By enclosing the whole in a light-tight box or chamber, inserting the negative
in an aperture in the proper position in the front of the box, and placing an ..."
5. The Photographic Journal of America: The Oldest Photography Magazine in America (1915)
"The light- tight storage compartments for the blue-printing paper before and after
... The blue-print paper is then delivered to the light- tight storage ..."
6. The American Amateur Photographer (1889)
"To test the light-tight qualities of a bellows, put the plate-holder in position,
remove the lens board, then while holding the camera in bright sunlight, ..."
7. American Druggist (1889)
"The joint must be made light-tight by lining the end of tube В with velvet ...
It is also fixed light-tight to the tube of the microscope in the same manner ..."
8. Diseases of the heart and aorta by Arthur Douglass Hirschfelder (1918)
"The essential part of the photographic apparatus itself is a light-tight box with
a slit, past which a film or strip of highly sensitized paper is rotated ..."
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