halation

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Brandon Stirling Baker’s lighting, with its dominant halation of white, also has a space-age aura.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

When viewed from several feet away, the dots coalesce into a halation of amorphous color.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024

When viewed from several feet away, the dots coalesced into a halation of amorphous color.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2023

This, with glass plates, is inseparable, and even when much labor has been bestowed on backing them, the halation is painfully apparent.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 by Various

Mr. Russell, Government Astronomer of New South Wales, finds that the "halation" of star photographs can be prevented by pouring over the back of the plate a film of collodion suitably stained.

From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard