Adjective : the luminous ballroom. ,a luminous concept; luminous prose. ,a concise, luminous report. From Dictionary.com.
Perhaps the swift self-luminous thing they saw earlier?. From Wordnik.com. [Across The Sea Of Suns]
There the self-luminous lady named Sandili always liveth. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
"Firing back" in incandescent burners, self-luminous burners. From Wordnik.com. [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference
What is understood by the term of self-luminous installation?. From Wordnik.com. [9. Commercial Lighting Fittings] Reference
It is thermally quite hot, though not self-luminous in the visible spectrum. From Wordnik.com. [And all the Stars a Stage]
Buddhist account of the moment-by-moment coproduction of self-luminous phenomena (257). From Wordnik.com. [Blake, Heidegger, Buddhism, and Deep Ecology: A Fourfold Perspective on Humanity's Relationship to Nature] Reference
Hot coals, red-hot stoves, gas flames, and candles shine by their own light, and are self-luminous. From Wordnik.com. [General Science] Reference
If even one of these gases was self-luminous, the field of vision must have been always illuminated. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
We know that these objects are not self-luminous, because they are not visible at night unless a lamp or gas is burning. From Wordnik.com. [General Science] Reference
So what we are dealing with here is a self-luminous reality, beyond conceptualization, endowed with all the qualities of a. From Wordnik.com. [Hegel on Buddhism] Reference
Many gems also were seen there that were self-luminous, and the soil all around was decked with diamonds of diverse species. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Without deriving its light and heat from any other thing it is self-luminous, and is an object of terror to all luminous bodies. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
The first act began in Japan fifty years ago, when Osamu Shimomura studied the self-luminous small crustacean ostracod Cypridina. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 - Presentation Speech] Reference
The illuminating value of ordinary self-luminous acetylene burners in different sizes has been examined by various photometrists. From Wordnik.com. [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference
The whole thing stood out with stereoscopic clearness, and seemed as though self-luminous, although it shed no light on its surroundings. From Wordnik.com. [Austin and His Friends] Reference
He seemed a small, self-luminous cloud at first, brooding on his sombre throne; his brain case must have measured many yards in diameter. From Wordnik.com. [First Men in the Moon] Reference
As a result of these experiments, Dr. Siemens considers that the view hitherto held, that highly-heated gases are self-luminous, is not correct. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
As the rising products of combustion still retain for a time the temperature of the flame, the reverse must occur if the gases were self-luminous. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
He further adds that this self-luminous matter 'seemed more fit to produce a star by its condensation than to depend on the star for its existence.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
At distances so great that only the speed of light can be used as a measuring line, you discover vast numbers of self-luminous bodies, which you call stars. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
There are suspended in this room self-luminous bodies which enable us by their rays or lines of force to see the non-luminous bodies with which we are surrounded. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883] Reference
That, upon the 4th of September, 1851, at 9: 30 A.M., he had seen a host of self-luminous bodies, passing the field of his telescope, some slowly and some rapidly. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Seneca adds his testimony to the self-luminous character of moral truth: "Whatever things tend to make us better or happier are either obvious or easily discovered.". From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The military's need for a magnified, self-luminous tactical sight. From Wordnik.com. [Aimpoint Scopes] Reference
The interior of Jupiter is very hot, but the planet is not self-luminous. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
The plain, self-luminous with the weird lucence of the arid lands, showed ghostly. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Nights] Reference
The text thus declares the one Brahman which is self-luminous and free from all difference. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
They were now perceived to be self-luminous, and to be formed, to a large extent, of glowing gas. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
Corona was to be deemed a sort of atmosphere of the Sun, not self-luminous, but shining by reflected light. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Eclipses] Reference
In the first experiment, the somnambule saw a finger upon a plate, which was self-luminous, and seemed to be writing. From Wordnik.com. [The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal] Reference
Astern was a white, self-luminous wake that narrowed to a point in the distance before it had lost its phosphorescent glow. From Wordnik.com. [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference
Clouds shine by the light of the sun, which they reflect to us; nebulæ shine with no borrowed light; they are self-luminous. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Heavens] Reference
The brilliance of the moon arises solely from the light of the sun, which falls on the not self-luminous substance of the moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Heavens] Reference
More on Sun from Infoplease: sun, in astronomy - sun sun, intensely hot, self-luminous body of gases at the center of the solar system. From Wordnik.com. [infoplease - Daily Almanac] Reference
'Under rigid test condition,' he writes, 'I have seen a solid, self-luminous body the size of an egg float noiselessly about the room!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow World] Reference
And on this point he already gave a hint of the direction in which his mind was moving by the remark that this self-luminous matter seemed. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
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