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View definitions for illumination

illumination

noun as in light; making light

noun as in clear understanding

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Viewing the Taurids may be affected by the illumination of the Moon, which could obscure some of the fainter meteors.

From BBC

"The mindset of every interviewer now in politics is not illumination. It is prosecution."

From Salon

Unfortunately this year the Moon will be in the sky throughout the night of the peak at more than 80% illumination.

From BBC

Random object juxtapositions create ever-changing patterns of illumination, which reflect off an angled mirror fixed above and onto the back of the big scrim.

The team used a powerful laser, called a soft X-ray free electron laser, to emit ultrafast pulses of illumination at the speed of femtoseconds, or quadrillionths of a second.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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