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luminousness

the quality of being luminous emitting or reflecting light...

In pleno lumine

In pleno lumine, in public; in common knowledge; in the light of day....

An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun moon or other luminous body by the intervention of some other body either between it and the eye or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earths shadow a solar eclipse by the moon coming between the sun and the observer A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet though of the nature of an eclipse is called an occultation The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet...

Firefly

Any luminous winged insect esp luminous beetles of the family Lampyridaelig...

Luminosity

The quality or state of being luminous luminousness...

Nebula

A faint cloudlike self luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars The term was originally applied to any diffuse luminous region Now technically it is applied to interstellar clouds of dust and gases diffuse nebula However distant galaxies and very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope such as the spiral nebula in Andromeda known now to be a distant galaxy...

Brightsome

Bright clear luminous brilliant...

Bunsen burner

a kind of burner invented by Professor Bunsen of Heidelberg consisting of a straight tube four or five inches in length having small holes for the entrance of air at the bottom Illuminating gas being also admitted at the bottom a mixture of gas and air is formed which burns at the top with a feebly luminous but intensely hot flame...

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