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SOURCE OF ILLUMINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does source of illumination mean? 

SOURCE OF ILLUMINATION (noun)
  The noun SOURCE OF ILLUMINATION has 1 sense:

1. any device serving as a source of visible electromagnetic radiationplay

  Familiarity information: SOURCE OF ILLUMINATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SOURCE OF ILLUMINATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any device serving as a source of visible electromagnetic radiation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("source of illumination" is a kind of...):

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "source of illumination"):

lamp (an artificial source of visible illumination)

light; light source (any device serving as a source of illumination)

ultraviolet lamp; ultraviolet source (any source of illumination that emits ultraviolet radiation)


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