Light Source

Definition: Light Source

Light Source

Noun

1. Any device serving as a source of illumination; "he stopped the car and turned off the lights".

Synonym: Light Source

Synonym: light (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Light Source

English words defined with "light source": Acer saccharinum, Ahura Mazda, Arc lamp ♦ calamus ♦ dolomite ♦ flood, flood lamp, floodlight, fluor, fluorescent, fluorite, fluorspar, From ♦ illuminant, Indican ♦ kernite, Kinetoscope ♦ lm, lumen ♦ Manichee ♦ Ormazd, Ormuzd ♦ photoflood ♦ searchlight, silver maple, sun. (references)

Specialty definitions using "light source": Absorption lines, Airy disk, Airy's disk, AMPOULE EXAMINER ♦ BALANCING-MACHINE OPERATOR, beaded screen, BODY WIRER ♦ cap light, Chromatium, coach wirer, Color Rendering or Rendition, Color Temperature, COMMAND AND CONTROL SPECIALIST, comparison lamp, comparison prism, CONTACT WORKER, LITHOGRAPHY, cosmological redshift ♦ Davidsohn reflex, davidson, Davidson's reflex, diffraction disk, Doppler-Fizeau effect ♦ electrician, wiring ♦ f.c., flash box ♦ glass beaded screen ♦ Haab reflex, hand lamp, hydrophotometer ♦ Inverse Square Law ♦ LABORATORY TESTER, light figure, LIGHT TABLE, luminous emittance, lunar radiation ♦ microdensitometer, Moscow ML ♦ occulting hood, optical air mass ♦ parafoveal vision, Photovoltaic Device, pin-hole projector, point appearance of a distant eight, point vision, Purkinje-Sanson images, pyrometric photography ♦ redshift ♦ sector of a sector light, SHADOW LINES, Sodium Lights ♦ Task Lighting, telephotometer, TYPE COPYIST. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Light Source

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Photo Album: Light Source

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	One of the many uses for the laser in medical research is as a light source to detect premalignant and malignant cells in a Pap smear. Shown here are gynecologic cells passing in a stream through the laser beam where each cell is analyzed. Abnormal-appearing cells can be sorted from the rest of the cells and later examined by a pathologist for evidence of cancer.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		Utraviolet Light Source in an Old Galaxy.Credit: NASA.
	[Cystoscopy: Bruck's lamp, first internal light source in cystoscopy, with water jacket for cooling].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Light Source

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		A cystoscope is an instrument made of a hollow tube with several lenses and a light source, which allows the doctor to see inside the bladder from the urethra. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: Light Source

Expression using "light source": monochromatic light source. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Light Source

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
light source	62
uv light source	9
alternate light source	4
xenon light source	3
ultraviolet light source	3
light source white	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Light Source

Language		Translations for "light source"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		光源 . (various references)

Hungarian		egyszínû fényforrás (monochromatic light source). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		光源 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"う�'�" (a wide plain or field, antigen, boasting, bragging, declaration, flattery, plateau, profession, protest, tableland, talking big, wilderness). (various references)

Pig Latin		ightlay ourcesay

Turkish		ışık kaynağı (glim). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Light Source

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-g-h-i-l-o-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: grouchiest.
	-2 letters: chlorites, clothiers, ghostlier, regoliths, righteous, slouchier, sloughier, trochilus.
	-3 letters: ceorlish, chlorite, choregus, chortles, citreous, cloister, clothier, clotures, clouters, coistrel, costlier, coughers, coulters, couthier, curliest, eulogist, ghostier, ghoulies, glitches, grouches, grutches, lighters, luthiers, outcries, outliers, regolith, relights, resought, roughest, scouther, selcouth, slighter, sloucher, theurgic, touchers, touchier, toughies, trochils, uroliths, utricles.
	-4 letters: chigoes, cholers.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-g-h-i-l-o-r-s-t-u"
	+3 letters: underclothings.
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