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transilluminate en · VERB

Etymology

From trans- + illuminate.

Meanings

1. To pass light easily through an object, body part, or liquid.
   • Kirchoff and others went on to identify a score of other terrestrial elements in the sun, and now the Fraunhofer mystery — the hundreds of black lines in the solar spectrum — could be understood as the absorption spectra of these elements to the outermost layers of the sun, as they were transilluminated from within. 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood:

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