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lightguide

lightguide noun: a waveguide used to guide light.

Noun

lightguide (plural lightguides)

  1. A waveguide used to guide light
    • It was proven that the insertion of the thin lightguide does not spoil the time resolution and the light output.2015, Dominika Alfs, “Test of Lightguides for the J-PET Detector”, in arXiv

Forms of lightguide

plurallightguides

Origin of lightguide

From light + guide.

Questions about lightguide

What does lightguide mean?
Lightguide means a waveguide used to guide light.
What part of speech is lightguide?
Lightguide is a noun.
What is the plural of lightguide?
The plural of lightguide is lightguides.

Words near lightguide in the dictionary

  1. Lightfoots
  2. lightfront
  3. lightfronts
  4. lightful
  5. lightfulness
  6. lightguide
  7. lightguides
  8. lightgun
  9. lightguns
  10. lighthanded
  11. lighthandedly

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