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Combust
adjective · 78% connection
Burnt; consumed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, moon.
Crescent
noun · 78% connection
The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the ol…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, moon.
Dark
adjective · 78% connection
Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, moon.
Daylight
noun · 78% connection
The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, moon.
Dioptrics
noun · 78% connection
The science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, moon.
Drummond light
unknown · 78% connection
A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, moon.
Eclipse
noun · 78% connection
An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, moon.
Emersion
noun · 78% connection
The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, moon.
Epact
noun · 78% connection
The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, moon.
Fluorescence
noun · 78% connection
That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color fr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, moon.
Full
Compar. · 78% connection
Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, moon.
Geoselenic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to the earth and moon; belonging to the joint action or mutual relations of the earth and moon; as, geoselenic phenomena.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, moon.
Gibbous
adjective · 78% connection
Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, moon.
Halo
noun · 78% connection
A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, moon.
Illuminate
verb · 78% connection
To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, moon.
Increase
verb · 78% connection
To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augme…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, moon.
Increscent
adjective · 78% connection
Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, moon.
Lantern
noun · 78% connection
Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perf…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, moon.
