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Definition of Ray 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
Definition of Ray of light
1. Noun. (physics) a path a photon or a group of photons takes through space, visible as a column of light ¹
2. Noun. (idiomatic) an inspiring or enlightening person or thing ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ray Of Light
Literary usage of Ray of light
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"A few years since, the discovery was made that a ray of light contains within
... On passing a ray of light through a prism, there is one portion which ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"REFRACTION, a deviation in the course of a ray of light when it passes through
the surface of a transparent medium. A familiar result of refraction is seen ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"REFRACTION, a deviation in the course of a ray of light when it passes through
the surface of a transparent medium. A familiar result of refraction is seen ..."
4. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1897)
"Such a ray of light is alike on all sides or all around the line of propagation,
AJB, f. 374. Л rav of completely polarized light, on the other hand, ..."
5. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, James Dwight Dana (1877)
"Such a ray of light is alike on all sides or all around the line of propagation,
ЛВ, f. 374. A ray of completely polarized light, on the other hand, ..."
6. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, James Dwight Dana (1877)
"Such a ray of light is alike on all sides or all around the line of ... 378, the
ray of light, BO, after being reflected by the first mirror, mn, ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"When a ray of light, moving in one homogeneous medium, falls on the bounding
surface of another homogeneous medium, it is in general divided into several ..."
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