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Definition of Luminiferous
1. a. Producing light; yielding light; transmitting light; as, the luminiferous ether.
Definition of Luminiferous
1. Adjective. Producing, or transmitting light; luminous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Luminiferous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Luminiferous
1. Producing or conveying light. Origin: L. Lumen, light, + fero, to carry (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Luminiferous
Literary usage of Luminiferous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theoretical and Physical Chemistry by Samuel Lawrence Bigelow (1912)
"CHAPTER IX luminiferous ETHER AND VORTEX RINGS luminiferous Ether. The undulatory
theory of light is considered to make necessary the hypothesis of ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1863)
"Modes of estimating luminiferous J'alite. The comparison of gasea by the photometer
is a test preferred by many gas-engineers to all others. ..."
3. The Elements of Molecular Mechanics by Joseph Bayma (1866)
"ON luminiferous AETHER*. To give a correct notion of some of the ... This obliges
us to say a few words on luminiferous aether, before we proceed further. ..."
4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"It is the luminiferous ether, that attenuated medium by which light, and heat,
and electricity are transmitted from one part of the universe to another, ..."
5. Mathematical and Physical Papers by Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Baron John William Strutt Rayleigh (1883)
"ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE luminiferous ETHER. THE phenomenon of aberration may
be reconciled with the undulatory theory of light, as I have already shown ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1858)
"On a Method of determining whether the luminiferous Vibrations are Parallel or
Perpendicular to the Plane of Polarization. By M. L'ABBÉ MOIGNO, ..."
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