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transilluminate

transilluminate verb: to pass light easily through an object, body part, or liquid.

Verb

transilluminate (third-person singular simple present transilluminates, present participle transilluminating, simple past and past participle transilluminated)

  1. To pass light easily through an object, body part, or liquid.
    • Kirchoff and others went on to identify a score of other terrestrial elements in the sun, and now the Fraunhofer mystery — the hundreds of black lines in the solar spectrum — could be understood as the absorption spectra of these elements to the outermost layers of the sun, as they were...2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

transilluminate meaning in Kannada

transilluminate in Kannada

ಅಂತಃಪ್ರಕಾಶ ತರು, ಒಳ ಬೆಳಗುಂಟು ಮಾಡು

Forms of transilluminate

third-person singular presenttransilluminates
present participletransilluminating
past participletransilluminated
pasttransilluminated

Origin of transilluminate

From trans- + illuminate.

Questions about transilluminate

What does transilluminate mean?
Transilluminate means to pass light easily through an object, body part, or liquid.
What is transilluminate in Kannada?
Transilluminate in Kannada is ಅಂತಃಪ್ರಕಾಶ ತರು, ಒಳ ಬೆಳಗುಂಟು ಮಾಡು. See Transilluminate meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is transilluminate?
Transilluminate is a verb.
What is the past tense of transilluminate?
The past tense of transilluminate is transilluminated.

Words near transilluminate in the dictionary

  1. transiliency
  2. transilient
  3. transiliosacral
  4. transilluminable
  5. transilluminatable
  6. transilluminate
  7. transilluminated
  8. transilluminates
  9. transilluminating
  10. transillumination
  11. transilluminations

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