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cold light

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cold light
n.
1. Light producing little or no heat.
2. Light emitted by a process other than incandescence.

cold light
n
(Physics / General Physics) light emitted at low temperatures from a source that is not incandescent, such as fluorescence, phosphorescence, bioluminescence, or triboluminescence


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The darkness lasted two hours longer; then by degrees a cold light crept through the Venetian blinds, until at length it revealed the objects in the room.
The blinds were drawn, and the room, in the cold light of a January afternoon, was dark.
The glamour of romance with which her imagination had invested him faded away in the cold light of fact that he was an ex-laundryman.
 
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