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white light

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white light
n.
Light that is a mixture of wavelengths of various colors and is perceived as colorless, as sunlight.
white light
n
(Physics / General Physics) light that contains all the wavelengths of visible light at approximately equal intensities, as in sunlight or the light from white-hot solids
white light
1. Electromagnetic radiation composed of a fairly even distribution of all of the frequencies in the visible range of the spectrum, appearing white to the eye. Light from the Sun is nearly perfect white light, although the Sun does not itself appear white when viewed on Earth due to the scattering of light with frequencies in the blue range by the atmosphere, leaving the Sun with a yellow color.
2. Light that appears white to the eye, composed of some combination of light with frequencies in the red, blue, and green parts of the spectrum. See also color.


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Suddenly the moon burst through a rift in the clouds and, himself in the shadow of a group of great oaks, the horseman saw the footman clearly, in a patch of white light.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
The white light strikes against it, and, with one exception, all its component colors--violet, indigo, green, yellow, orange, and red--are absorbed.
Moon-Face and Other Stories by London, Jack View in context
This last device produces an intensely brilliant far-reaching white light, but as the natural oil which it requires can only be obtained by mining in one of several widely separated and remote localities it is seldom used by these creatures whose only thought is for today, and whose hatred for manual labor has kept them in a semi-barbaric state for countless ages.
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