lightnoun(BRIGHTNESS)

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

brightness that allows you to see
lightLight streamed in through the window.
brightnessThe brightness of the sun hurt his eyes.
illuminationFor professional-quality photos, it is best to use several sources of illumination.
sunThis plant needs to be in full sun.
sunlightSunlight streamed in through the windows.
daylightHow much daylight does this room get?

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Light
backlight
backlighting
beam
brilliance
candlelight
coruscation
fluorescence
helio-
illumination
infrared
moonbeam
opalescence
phosphene
phosphorescence
photo
shininess
starlight
sun
sunshine
torchlight

sunlight | American Dictionary

sunlight
noun[ U ]
us/ˈsʌnˌlɑɪt/
light that comes from the sun:
These flowers need bright sunlight.

Examples of sunlight

sunlight
Where possible the presence of fruit bats was confirmed visually, with the aid of a torch, or sunlight directed by a small mirror.
The apparent dependency of the wasps on sunlight to conduct their ovipositional flights is interesting.
The equation would proceed to the right using sunlight as an energy source and to the left in darkness or when work is exerted.
These large gap locations received 80-100% sunlight during the day.
In this case ice, is able to undergo intensive sublimation if the surface is heated enough by sunlight.
If the life happens to be on the surface, it must have some kind of reflector to concentrate sunlight.
These microhabitats are also disturbed in the sense that sunlight is a temporally available resource.
Sunlight passes through the steel-framed windows, making the flats even brighter.
These species are, however, gap specialists and have ready access to sunlight.
Of course the bright sunlight is then, broadly speaking, too bright and it has to be excluded to prevent buildings overheating.
The blue sky provides about a tenth of the bright sunlight and is more or less diffused.
For living objects with optical concentrators, the concentration factor increases with the square of distance to compensate for the decrease in sunlight.
Minor concessions to location and climate were developed, the verandah, for example, keeping direct sunlight from falling on external walls.
Crab burrows within grassland sites were exposed to direct effects of sunlight.
Since this mouse is an optical mouse, the mouse fails when sufficient sunlight leaks into the trackball.
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