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light-bearing en · ADJ

Etymology

From light + bearing. Compare Old English lēohtbǣre (“luminous, bright, splendid”, literally “light-bearing”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Bearing or serving as a medium for light; (by extension) luminous; bright
    • The high worth of diamonds comes from the same source: a super-hard, eternal substance, at the same time a light-bearing, translucent substance, a kind of solid emptiness, a marvelous optical illusion. 1996, Russian Studies, Philosophy:
    • Others within the Cartesian tradition took the idea of a light-bearing medium in quite different directions. For instance, in 1690 Christiaan Huygens considered light to be a sequence of pulses traveling at a finite velocity within the medium. 2014, Peter Pesic, Music and the Making of Modern Science:

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