faint+light

  • 21light — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 brightness ADJECTIVE ▪ clear, good ▪ bright, brilliant, harsh, intense, strong ▪ blinding …

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  • 22light — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I adj. airy (see levity); frivolous, jesting, jocular, lightsome; giddy, dizzy, flighty; wanton; nimble, agile; flippant, pert, insouciant; humorous; trivial. See cheerfulness, unimportance, impurity,… …

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  • 23light — I [[t]laɪt[/t]] n. adj. light•er, light•est, 1) something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light[/ex] 2) phs a) electromagnetic radiation to which the organs of sight react, ranging in wavelength from about… …

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  • 24Faint Object Camera — The Faint Object Camera (FOC) was a camera installed on the Hubble Space Telescope from launch in 1990 until 2002. It was replaced by the Advanced Camera for Surveys.The camera was built by Dornier GmbH and was funded by the European Space Agency …

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  • 25light — Synonyms and related words: ASA scale, Anschauung, British candle, Hefner candle, Mickey Mouse, Paphian, Scheiner scale, Very flare, abuse, accented, account, acquaintance, active, aerial, aeriform, aery, agile, airish, airlike, airy, alabaster,… …

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  • 26light —   1. Illumination. Ao, lama, malama, kukui.    ♦ Electric light, kukui uila.    ♦ Daylight, ao, eleao.    ♦ Faint streak of light, hilo.    ♦ Dazzling light, hulili.    ♦ Light with a torch, aulama.    ♦ Light color, fair, halakea.    ♦ Light of… …

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  • 27Faint blue galaxy — A faint blue galaxy is a distant, irregularly shaped galaxy in which star formation occurs at a high rate. From the late 1970s it became apparent in deep galaxy surveys that a population of these blue galaxies existed at vast distances.Later… …

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  • 28faint — Synonyms and related words: KO, abulic, achromatic, achromic, afraid, ailing, anemic, ashen, ashy, asthenic, bad, balmy, barely audible, below par, black out, blackout, bland, blear, bleared, bleary, bled white, bloodless, blow, blurred, blurry,… …

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  • 29faint — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. swoon; lose heart or courage; fail, fade, weaken, pass out (inf.). adj. pale, indistinct; feeble, weak. See weakness, colorlessness, impotence, silence, dimness, faintness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1 …

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  • 30dimmed light — faint light, reduced light …

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