Illumination Definition

ĭ-lo͝omə-nāshən
noun
The act of illuminating.
American Heritage
An illuminating or being illuminated.
Webster's New World
A source of light.
American Heritage
Decorative lighting, as for a city.
Webster's New World
The designs, tracings, etc. used in decorating manuscripts.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Illumination

Noun

Singular:
illumination
Plural:
illuminations

Origin of Illumination

  • From Middle French illumination, from Latin illuminatio

    From Wiktionary

Illumination Sentence Examples

  • There is everywhere a certain illumination due to it.

  • We will now investigate the total illumination distributed over the area of the circle of radius r.

  • The electric lamp a gives illumination of the webs in a dark field, nearly in the manner described for the Cape transit circle micrometer; the intensity of illumination is regulated by a carbon-resistance controlled by the screw b.

  • For the dark rings Ji(z) =o; so that the fraction of illumination outside any dark ring is simply Jo 2 (z).

  • In estimating theoretically the resolving power on a double star we have to consider the illumination of the field due to the superposition of the two independent images.

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Words Starting With

IILILL

Words Ending With

NONION

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Words Starting With I and Ending With N

Starts With I & Ends With NStarts With IL & Ends With NStarts With I & Ends With ON

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12 Letter Words12 Letter Words Starting With I12 Letter Words Ending With N