illumination
The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
Example
“The room was filled with soft illumination from the candles.”
Other meanings
Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.
Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See (transitive verb).
Related words
- overillumination
- global illumination
- illumination problem
- over-illumination
- structured illumination
- reillumination
- underillumination
- Phong illumination
- oblique illumination
- bioillumination
- counterillumination
- endoillumination
Word history
From Latin "illumino".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “illumination” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.