light-bearing

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English

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Etymology

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From light +‎ bearing. Compare Old English lēohtbǣre (luminous, bright, splendid, literally light-bearing).

Adjective

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light-bearing (not comparable)

  1. Bearing or serving as a medium for light; (by extension) luminous; bright
    • 1996, Russian Studies, Philosophy:
      The high worth of diamonds comes from the same source: a super-hard, eternal substance, at the same time a light-bearing, translucent substance, a kind of solid emptiness, a marvelous optical illusion.
    • 2014, Peter Pesic, Music and the Making of Modern Science:
      Others within the Cartesian tradition took the idea of a light-bearing medium in quite different directions. For instance, in 1690 Christiaan Huygens considered light to be a sequence of pulses traveling at a finite velocity within the medium.

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