illumination
Example Sentences
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The telescope would allow wide area observations of the lunar surface during strong solar flares, when the Sun provides more intense X-ray illumination.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026
The camera seemed delighted by the illumination of all those cellphones, but mostly ignored the overhead Jumbotron, which, when I go to big shows, tends to be the only thing I wind up watching.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
Even Apollo astronauts didn't see the Orientale basin completely because of their orbit and illumination conditions.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
One must also—so to speak—feed the meter, plugging €2 pieces into the adjacent light boxes, to earn several minutes of artificial illumination for help with the celestial kind.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
But at twilight or during the night, other things are visible: oil-well fires in Libya and the Persian Gulf; deepwater illumination by the Japanese squid fishing fleet; the bright lights of large cities.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing illumination
Let There Be Light: Lum and Luc
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"The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury
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