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light-bearing

light-bearing adjective: bearing or serving as a medium for light; (by extension) luminous; bright.

Adjective

light-bearing (not comparable)

  1. Bearing or serving as a medium for light; (by extension) luminous; bright
    • The high worth of diamonds comes from the same source: a super-hard, eternal substance, at the same time a light-bearing, translucent substance, a kind of solid emptiness, a marvelous optical illusion.1996, Russian Studies, Philosophy
    • Others within the Cartesian tradition took the idea of a light-bearing medium in quite different directions. For instance, in 1690 Christiaan Huygens considered light to be a sequence of pulses traveling at a finite velocity within the medium.2014, Peter Pesic, Music and the Making of Modern Science

Origin of light-bearing

From light + bearing. Compare Old English lēohtbǣre (“luminous, bright, splendid”, literally “light-bearing”).

Questions about light-bearing

What does light-bearing mean?
Light-bearing means bearing or serving as a medium for light; (by extension) luminous; bright.
What part of speech is light-bearing?
Light-bearing is an adjective.

Words near light-bearing in the dictionary

  1. light weeks
  2. light year
  3. light years
  4. light æon
  5. light æons
  6. light-bearing
  7. light-bulb
  8. light-bulb moment
  9. light-bulb moments
  10. light-bulbed
  11. light-bulbs

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