Meaning of light-bearing | Babel Free

Definitions

Bearing or serving as a medium for light; (by extension) luminous; bright

not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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