Definition of Light filter

1. Noun. A transparent filter that reduces the light (or some wavelengths of the light) passing through it.

Exact synonyms: Diffusing Screen
Generic synonyms: Filter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Light Filter

light company
light cone
light cones
light cream
light curve
light dependent reaction
light dependent resistor
light diet
light difference
light differential threshold
light echo
light elf
light elves
light engine
light engines
light filter (current term)
light flyweight
light gel
light globe
light globes
light green SF yellowish
light gun
light guns
light harvesting system
light heavyweight
light hour
light industry
light infantry
light intensity

Literary usage of Light filter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Photographic Times (1908)
"The first point to be grasped is that the light filter is not used to ... The function of the light filter is to keep back the superactive violet and blue ..."

2. Three-colour Photography: Three-colour Printing and the Production of by Arthur Hübl (1904)
"A green (respectively a blue and yellow light filter) has been used for the taking of ... The condition that the light filter should be complementary to the ..."

3. The Optical Rotating Power of Organic Substances and Its Practical Applications by Hans Landolt, Otto Schönrock, Paul Lindner (1902)
"... Sodium Light-Filter.1—In the following considerations, in order to have a specific kind of instrument in mind, we shall assume that all observations are ..."

4. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1896)
"When a light filter is used a light yellow one of an aqueous solution of bichromate of ... With acetylene light a light filter is more frequently required. ..."

5. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"... light filter, constitutes the most effective absorbent means of sodium-light ... light filter consists of a tubular cell closed at the ends by tightly ..."

6. The Photographic Journal of America: The Oldest Photography Magazine in America (1917)
".It is to remedy this state of things that a light filter or color screen is used. The fact is sometimes overlooked that the photographer has a very useful ..."

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