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relightable

relightable adjective: capable of being lit again.

Adjective

relightable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being lit again.
    • The gas was still relightable.1928, Thomas Arthur Rickard, The Mining Magazine, volume 39, page 128
    • However, the main burner was not relightable.1978, Callaghan's Official Wisconsin Reports, page 248
  2. Capable of being rendered again with different simulated lighting conditions.
    • A relightable model requires more than 20 GB of raw image data.2007, Markus Gross, Hanspeter Pfister, Point-based graphics, page 78

Origin of relightable

From relight + -able.

Questions about relightable

What does relightable mean?
Relightable means capable of being lit again.
What part of speech is relightable?
Relightable is an adjective.

Words near relightable in the dictionary

  1. religates
  2. religating
  3. religation
  4. religations
  5. relight
  6. relightable
  7. relighted
  8. relighten
  9. relightened
  10. relightening
  11. relightens

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