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Visible light   /vˈɪzəbəl laɪt/   Listen
Visible light

noun
1.
(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation.  Synonyms: light, visible radiation.






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"Visible light" Quotes from Famous Books



... action of the emitted rays is feeble, comparatively speaking; and that the visible light of the fluidic hands is less actinic than the ...
— The Problems of Psychical Research - Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal • Hereward Carrington

... a latent state, the experience of the stricken flint, of lightning from the clouds, and the like, served to prove, or at least, it supplied a popular answer to the objection;—"If the soul be light, why is it not visible?" That the purest light is invisible to our gross sense, and that visible light is a compound of light and shadow, were answers of a later and more refined period. Observe, however, that the Hebrew Legislator precluded all unfit applications of the materializing fancy by forbidding the people to 'imagine' at all concerning God. For the ...
— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge



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