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Definition of luminiferous in English: luminiferousadjective ˌluːmɪˈnɪf(ə)rəsˌlo͞oməˈnif(ə)rəs archaic Producing or transmitting light. 〈主古〉发(或传导)光的 Example sentencesExamples - These equations described visible light as a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, and said that the luminiferous ether was not necessary for electromagnetic waves to propagate through space.
- Also, it feels more natural to pull in facts from ‘normal’ science when I've already made the leap by talking about the luminiferous ether.
- Thus, with a swiftness approaching the speed of light itself, the luminiferous ether entered the graveyard of discredited scientific ideas.
- And I have been able to do so because I have become increasingly convinced that culture, like the luminiferous ether of nineteenth-century physics, doesn't do much work.
- So may one therefore conclude that the luminiferous ether doesn't exist?
Synonyms shining, bright, brilliant, radiant, dazzling, glowing, gleaming, coruscating, scintillating, lustrous, luminescent, phosphorescent, incandescent Definition of luminiferous in US English: luminiferousadjectiveˌlo͞oməˈnif(ə)rəs archaic Producing or transmitting light. 〈主古〉发(或传导)光的 Example sentencesExamples - And I have been able to do so because I have become increasingly convinced that culture, like the luminiferous ether of nineteenth-century physics, doesn't do much work.
- These equations described visible light as a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, and said that the luminiferous ether was not necessary for electromagnetic waves to propagate through space.
- Thus, with a swiftness approaching the speed of light itself, the luminiferous ether entered the graveyard of discredited scientific ideas.
- Also, it feels more natural to pull in facts from ‘normal’ science when I've already made the leap by talking about the luminiferous ether.
- So may one therefore conclude that the luminiferous ether doesn't exist?
Synonyms shining, bright, brilliant, radiant, dazzling, glowing, gleaming, coruscating, scintillating, lustrous, luminescent, phosphorescent, incandescent |